Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Futuristic Dystopia of Sprawlville is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Wintermute with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.96 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Social Welfare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chiba. The average income tax rate is 73%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing.

The poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Chiba Times is sold out, and the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sprawlville's national animal is the Megarat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dollayen.

Sprawlville is ranked 1,320th in 10000 Islands and 79,719th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 15 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and