Location: Iran

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of THEDOCTOR is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.041 billion 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 devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 61%, and even 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.

Legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, and the government funds large training centres to turn DOCTORs into functioning members of society. Crime is totally unknown. THEDOCTOR's national animal is the DOCTOR, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the DOCTOR.

THEDOCTOR is ranked 19th in Iran and 31,656th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -11 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and