Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Nocturnaldom of Pixiestickle is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Dennis with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 9.934 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy 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, the Environment, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sticklopia. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pixiestickle's national animal is the Sparkledesu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Donkey.

Pixiestickle is ranked 1,314th in Europeia and 101,329th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -75 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and