Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Shuddera is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Vasili Valado with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.896 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Naumeria. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Gambling industry, followed by Beef-Based Agriculture and Automobile Manufacturing.

Children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, most citizens in Shuddera are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, and new urban roads are threatening city parks. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Shuddera's national animal is the shudderian sloth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is The Way of Vasili Valado, and its currency is the multa dollar.

Shuddera is ranked 704th in the Rejected Realms and 17,392nd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 28 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

View Forum posts

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and