Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Protectorate of Paffnia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Aleksandar Vekili with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.231 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skoptopolis. The average income tax rate is 92%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Paffnia's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, Llama is one of the most popular forenames in Paffnia, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paffnia's national animal is the llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the paffnar.

Paffnia is ranked 1,842nd in 10000 Islands and 93,981st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -25 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and