Location: Suomi

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rajamaat of Rahjalaiset is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.449 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Suur-Junkkarila. The average income tax rate is 76%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture.

Reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime is totally unknown. Rahjalaiset's national animal is the Joutsen, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Väinämöinen.

Rahjalaiset is ranked 1st in Suomi and 84,548th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -19 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and