Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fascist Dictatorship of The Greater Aryan Race is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Führer Bogislav Friedrich Wilhelm with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.47 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with areas such as Social Welfare and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Germania. The average income tax rate is 72%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Woodchip Exports industry.

Students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, the populace lives in fear of painful execution for minor offences, thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, and the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Greater Aryan Race's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Roman Catholicism, and its currency is the Reichsmark.

The Greater Aryan Race is ranked 69th in Europe and 10,127th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -5 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and