Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Shaed is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Katarin L'seur with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 8.429 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nouva. The average income tax rate is 97%. 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.

Shaed is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, children are raised bilingual from an early age, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is totally unknown. Shaed's national animal is the shaedian cave tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the shaed twillith.

Shaed is ranked 3,480th in Lazarus and 99,822nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -39 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and