Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Theocracy of Tabeland is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.051 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tabeland City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 79%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

New religious sects are squashed immediately by the government, muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions, camels with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, and the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Tabeland's national animal is the camel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the droodle.

Tabeland is ranked 4,506th in the South Pacific and 95,106th in the world for Best Weather, with -1,686 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and