Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Swanmori is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Abraham Cohen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.348 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cohen. The average income tax rate is 38%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, followed by Book Publishing and Information Technology.

Multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", "it was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination, and citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Swanmori's national animal is the lion, and its currency is the shekel pound.

Swanmori is ranked 269th in Europe and 76,928th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and