Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Tzo is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 16.024 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, and the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees. Crime is totally unknown. Tzo's national animal is the Albatros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Unit.

Tzo is ranked 2,092nd in 10000 Islands and 101,483rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -125 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and