Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Desicrated Sanctum of The Haunted Woods is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Phantom Guide with a fair hand, and remarkable for its happy-go-lucky citizens. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.059 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, liberal individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of the Environment, with areas such as Law & Order and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Graveyard. Income tax is unheard of. 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.

The public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, the government is giving peace a chance, The Haunted Woods is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and military funding has been stripped back. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. The Haunted Woods's national animal is the Will O' the Wisp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is the Afterlife, and its currency is the corpse.

The Haunted Woods is ranked 4,135th in the South Pacific and 125,861st in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with -6 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and