Location: Cherowaka

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Satin is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Satan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of public education. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 965 million 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.

The tiny government concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although Defence and the Environment are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Confederate city. The average income tax rate is 10%, but much higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Soda Sales and Gambling.

A niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up, the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque, Satan has just been declared ruler of Satin in an international press conference, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is a serious problem. Satin's national animal is the tigers, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dollors.

Satin is ranked 13th in Cherowaka and 57,456th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -13 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and