Location: Scandinavia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederated Communes of Skeppsdal is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 10.417 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Equality and the Environment are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dalströmma. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8%. 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.

Wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Skeppsdal Blood Tithe, the Federal Council of Skeppsdal has been announced as the new Head of State, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Skeppsdal's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Skeppsdal Daler.

Skeppsdal is ranked 68th in Scandinavia and 90,233rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -22 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and