Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Pulsing Red Waves of Thought transference is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 16.905 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cerebrumium. The average income tax rate is 93%, 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.

Students cut up leftover Ideas during Arts and Crafts, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is totally unknown. Thought transference's national animal is the communication, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Idea.

Thought transference is ranked 1,271st in the Rejected Realms and 100,611th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -47 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and