Location: Valhalla

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Poets Lament is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 9.455 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Public Transport, and Education. The average income tax rate is 38%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Soda Sales industry, followed by Pizza Delivery and Trout Farming.

Organ donation is compulsory, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, cars are banned, and 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Poets Lament's national animal is the raven, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the fear.

Poets Lament is ranked 7th in Valhalla and 62,518th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -13 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and