Location: Penguinia

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Parliamentary Kingdom of Stuclica is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Angus Jymdreg with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.378 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Defence and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stuclow. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining industries.

Shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, criminals are thrown to the Penguins to repay their debt to society, and citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stuclica's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Stuclo.

Stuclica is ranked 1st in Penguinia and 40,697th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 13 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and