Location: Zeeland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Tessen is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by King Richard with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 15.194 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Charlesburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Deers have more rights than the average citizen, tourists outnumber citizens two to one, commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies, and marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tessen's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the pound.

Tessen is ranked 1st in Zeeland and 2,449th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 32 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and