Location: Catholic

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Matriarchy of Our Lady of The Nunnish Nations is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Mother Superior with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, cynical population of 20.075 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Law & Order, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 36%, but much higher for the wealthy. 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.

X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, and anti-environmentalist protesters are gunned down without mercy. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Nunnish Nations's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Roman Catholicism, and its currency is the rosary bead.

The Nunnish Nations is ranked 2nd in Catholic and 10,531st in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 32 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and