Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Galactik Imperium of Velon is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by SQUEE with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.834 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of poopopolis. The average income tax rate is 99%. A large private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, the children of Velon are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Velon's national animal is the piggus chunkus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the donut hole.

Velon is ranked 252nd in The North Pacific and 9,158th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 79 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and