Location: Free States of Gaia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Poet Laureate is Ormrod of Ormrod is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed population of 21.634 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Defence and Social Welfare are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, and crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ormrod's national animal is the labrador, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dollar.

Ormrod is ranked 4th in Free States of Gaia and 1,426th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 18 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and