Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Order of Voxum Mortalum is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by The Grand Master with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.948 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darkspace. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Voxum Mortalum after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, and army rations are served on silver platters. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Voxum Mortalum's national animal is the Undead Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is immortalism, and its currency is the mortalia.

Voxum Mortalum is ranked 511th in Europe and 101,346th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -77 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and