Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Call for the Dead of Richard I is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Pharaoh with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, cynical population of 20.326 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Richard I City. The average income tax rate is 45%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Richard I's newly-famous raindances to summon storms instead attract tourists from all over Texas, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, and shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding Richard I. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Richard I's national animal is the Hell Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is logging into NationStates every so often, and its currency is the Platinum Dollar.

Richard I is ranked 150th in Texas and 125,196th in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring -6 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and