Location: ICN

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Nomadic Peoples of Wandering Desert is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.224 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oasis. The average income tax rate is 72%. A large private sector is dominated by the Furniture Restoration industry.

Piracy is the nation's most popular pastime, the government seizes all major gold finds, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wandering Desert's national animal is the crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the shiny.

Wandering Desert is ranked 4th in ICN and 93,010th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -24 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and