Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principality of Tea-drinking Pomeranians is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Truffle Trafalgar with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.023 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 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 Unsweetened Please City. The average income tax rate is 71%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, the study of medicine is popular throughout Tea-drinking Pomeranians, the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, and the tenet of free speech is held dear. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tea-drinking Pomeranians's national animal is the Pomeranian, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Pierogi.

Tea-drinking Pomeranians is ranked 3,692nd in the West Pacific and 84,386th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -19 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and