Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Safj is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Wassner with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 18.917 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Bend. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, euthanasia is legal, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, and citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Safj's national animal is the Dodo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Ivox.

Safj is ranked 1st in Lazarus and 35th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,372 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and