Location: Ulthar

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Gaian Ambassador of Scandalbrooke is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Ambassador Nowai Dood with an even hand, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 8.139 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort William. The average income tax rate is 91%. 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.

Priests are being drafted by the church load, expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, and teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Scandalbrooke's national animal is the red squirrel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is religious freedom, and its currency is the pound.

Scandalbrooke is ranked 75th in Ulthar and 93,580th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -24 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and