Location: Greece

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Vilayet of Urganj is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.735 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Commerce and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urganj's national animal is the pikachu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the som.

Urganj is ranked 34th in Greece and 83,892nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -18 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and