Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Order of Voxum Mortalum is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Grand Master with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 11.141 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, 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.

Orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, all forms of advertising are banned, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. 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 1st in Europe and 102nd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 67 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and