Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Slothomania is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the Slow Loris with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.958 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Slothforest City. The average income tax rate is 71%. A large private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, highschool principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, and politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slothomania's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Folivorism, and its currency is the Surprise.

Slothomania is ranked 3,926th in the West Pacific and 91,907th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and