Location: Valastrich

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Jingoistic States of Tasgalion is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.494 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tasgalion City. The average income tax rate is 70%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits, international tensions are high as Tasgalion threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, and Tasgalion successfully hosted the Valastrich Olympics. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tasgalion's national animal is the Fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Dollar.

Tasgalion is ranked 1st in Valastrich and 113,754th in the world for Most Pacifist, scoring -376 on the Lennon-Springsteen Scale.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and