Location: Laissez Faireholm

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The Free Confederacy of Vecherd is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Seamus O Donell with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.529 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cairlinn. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling industries.

'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, anti-government web sites are springing up, and multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy". Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Vecherd's national animal is the Reindeer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Vecherdian Reformed Judaism , and its currency is the Vecherdian pound.

Vecherd is ranked 25th in Laissez Faireholm and 111,285th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.012 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and