Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Spikester is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The immortal benevolent Spike with an even hand, and notable for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.425 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

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 Equality, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Schporktown. The average income tax rate is 92%, 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.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, and roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Spikester's national animal is the Owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Spike.

Spikester is ranked 5,222nd in The North Pacific and 127,022nd in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring -10 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and