Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Stromia is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Tyr Backstrom with an even hand, and renowned for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate population of 13.89 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Linkoping. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, the arms industry is strictly regulated, and the government pours millions of Quints into rehabilitation programs annually. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stromia's national animal is the lynx, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Annunakiism, and its currency is the Quint.

Stromia is ranked 20th in Europe and 1,163rd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 37 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and