Location: European Union

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

The Holiest Grunge of Skillet and Three Days Grace is a massive, genial nation, notable for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.629 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SkillGrace City. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs, and the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skillet and Three Days Grace's national animal is the Holy Monster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Fire Breathes Without You, and its currency is the money.

Skillet and Three Days Grace is ranked 25th in European Union and 21,926th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 159 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and