Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Psp199324 is a massive, genial nation, ruled by H-Qaed with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.152 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Al-Hidd City. The average income tax rate is 68%, and even higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, H-Qaed has just been declared ruler of Psp199324 in an international press conference, and the newspaper industry is subsidised by the government in order to keep it afloat. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Psp199324's national animal is the Reem Gazelle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dinar.

Psp199324 is ranked 4,438th in the South Pacific and 90,543rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -22 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and