Location: International Democratic Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic Federation of Purple Schnauzers is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 13.421 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Public Transport, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 30%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The government is reigning in public spending, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, government officials are held to the highest standard of morality, and the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem. Purple Schnauzers's national animal is the wild schnauzer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the schnauzermark.

Purple Schnauzers is ranked 56th in International Democratic Union and 83,351st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -18 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and