Location: The New Inquisition

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Despotate of Straethearn is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Antiochos Megas with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.994 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xionae. The average income tax rate is 42%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Tourism.

Business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, the government funds large training centres to turn Sabertooths into functioning members of society, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Straethearn's national animal is the Sabertooth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the for free.

Straethearn is ranked 332nd in The New Inquisition and 76,324th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 99 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and