Location: Europe

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Technocracy of Science-Oriented Scots is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Carl Sagan's Brain in a Jar with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.984 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Megalopolis of Edinburgh. The average income tax rate is 27%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, the police force is on a recruitment drive, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, and schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Science-Oriented Scots's national animal is the puffin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the scot.

Science-Oriented Scots is ranked 382nd in Europe and 102,200th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 11 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and