Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Prostino is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President NeoDymus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.911 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prostania. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy. Crime is relatively low. Prostino's national animal is the Plysnuff, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Catholicism, and its currency is the Septim.

Prostino is ranked 1,226th in the Rejected Realms and 96,304th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -28 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and