Location: Haifa

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Citadel of Sufi Mystics is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.162 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Law & Order and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 57%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Crime is totally unknown. Sufi Mystics's national animal is the gazelle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the oudz.

Sufi Mystics is ranked 1st in Haifa and 21,625th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -9 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and