Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Grand Duchy of Risottia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Granduc Marc Primm with an iron fist, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 11.796 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Milan. The average income tax rate is 92%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Organ donation rates have hit a new low, Risottia's famous countrysides are shrouded by wind farms, Amnesty Interregional has condemned Risottia for ignoring crimes against humanity, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime is totally unknown. Risottia's national animal is the watersnake, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the ghell.

Risottia is ranked 4,287th in the West Pacific and 83,713th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -34 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and