Location: Lardlandia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Chief Grand High Poobaship of Sparicir is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chief Grand High Pooba with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.842 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poobaville. The average income tax rate is 92%, and even higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, the SBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative. Crime is totally unknown. Sparicir's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pooba coin.

Sparicir is ranked 2nd in Lardlandia and 11,865th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 173 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and