Location: Uberwald

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Eldritch Commonwealth of Uberwald is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Patrician Vetinari with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 20.606 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bonk. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Book Publishing and Gambling.

The minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed, the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy', and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime is totally unknown. Uberwald's national animal is the vampire bat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the phoenix down.

Uberwald is ranked 1st in Uberwald and 100,712th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -49 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and