Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Most Serene Holy Empire of The imperial canadian dutchy is a huge, economically powerful nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate population of 808 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Toronto-New Rome. The average income tax rate is 93%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, school uniforms are compulsory, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The imperial canadian dutchy's national animal is the wise red dragon of new rome, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the imperial denier.

The imperial canadian dutchy is ranked 124th in Canada and 94,098th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -25 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and