Location: the Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Fist of TannerFrankLand is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ville Valo with an even hand, and remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate population of 5.223 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poplar Bluff. The average income tax rate is 95%. 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.

Graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, police officers have nearly cracked a major underage astronomy syndicate, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", and strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TannerFrankLand's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Himism, and its currency is the dollar.

TannerFrankLand is ranked 3,959th in the Pacific and 95,409th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -27 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and