Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Piping Plovers of Solanum-Blaatone is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Varquil the Awesome with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.679 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 Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dadys. The average income tax rate is 95%. 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.

Survivors receive aid from only the most environmentally-friendly transport, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, and graffiti graces every city's streets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solanum-Blaatone's national animal is the Blue Iguana, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Judaism, and its currency is the Digim.

Solanum-Blaatone is ranked 2,049th in 10000 Islands and 99,949th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -40 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and