Location: Funen

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Studios of Tagesschau is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Merkel with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.619 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 40%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Uranium Mining.

The arms industry is strictly regulated, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Tagesschau to be bombproof. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tagesschau's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Lutheran, and its currency is the deutsche mark.

Tagesschau is ranked 16th in Funen and 71,736th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -15 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and