Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Against the Wind of of Todler is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by Todler with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20.505 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

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, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Savannah. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

Citizens are forbidden from leaving the country, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Todler after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative', and millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Todler's national animal is the dalmation, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Worship Todler, and its currency is the Penguin.

Todler is ranked 1,354th in the West Pacific and 36,045th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 23 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and