Location: Ticazew

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principalities of The Thousand Sons is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Spirit of Magnus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.491 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prospero. The average income tax rate is 48%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology industries.

Legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments, thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship, and the military has quashed a recent coup attempt. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Thousand Sons's national animal is the Tutelary, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Spell.

The Thousand Sons is ranked 1st in Ticazew and 34,563rd in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 5 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and