Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rebirth of Sydia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Syd Barrett with a fair hand, and notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.923 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Public Transport receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of La Serenissima. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffer-driven limousines, nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sydia's national animal is the flying pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the diamond.

Sydia is ranked 3,920th in The North Pacific and 82,590th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and