Location: Eutopia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Dormitory of UCLA Sproul Hall is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Woodrow Park with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 12.533 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 the Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westwood. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UCLA Sproul Hall's national animal is the bruin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the sundollar.

UCLA Sproul Hall is ranked 6th in Eutopia and 100,970th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -55 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and