Location: Q102

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Variable Attention Span of Schotze is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed population of 15.831 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 43%, but much higher for the wealthy. A very small private sector is dominated by the Gambling industry.

Eight year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas, the latest drugs are only legally available to private patients, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Schotze's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Rocky.

Schotze is ranked 9th in Q102 and 117,728th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 7 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and