Location: Maltropian Puppet Confederacy

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Interactive Community of Paradox is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by His Majesty Johan Andersson with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.486 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Johan's Burg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3%. A small private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Tourism and Woodchip Exports.

Scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation, citizens must pay to enjoy Paradox's pristine beaches, and His Majesty Johan Andersson has just been declared ruler of Paradox in an international press conference. Crime is crippling. Paradox's national animal is the Platypus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Paradox Point.

Paradox is ranked 60th in Maltropian Puppet Confederacy and 124,224th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring -2 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and