Location: vvardenfell

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Sellasinia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Tranquillus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.352 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Epiphanea. The average income tax rate is 64%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, and the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism. Crime is totally unknown. Sellasinia's national animal is the grass adder, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the drachma.

Sellasinia is ranked 7th in vvardenfell and 87,576th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -20 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and