Location: Hampshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Allied States of Skizzy Lizzy is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Bearded Guru with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.983 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Parliament Funkadelic. 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.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Skizzy Lizzy's national animal is the spotted owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Hippie Christianity, and its currency is the wino.

Skizzy Lizzy is ranked 73rd in Hampshire and 100,405th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -44 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and