Location: Pennsylvania

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Vol is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate population of 2.661 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vol City. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, and the art of conversation has been rediscovered. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vol's national animal is the Raven, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dollar.

Vol is ranked 3rd in Pennsylvania and 26,897th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 31 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and