Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Learned Society of Stone Age Electricians is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-working population of 12.203 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47%. 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.

All weapon research has been banned, polygamy is legal, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, and gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native Stone Age Electriciansite casinos. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stone Age Electricians's national animal is the phoenix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the wire.

Stone Age Electricians is ranked 3,477th in the Pacific and 79,787th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -17 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and