Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Socialist Marsupials of Wapakalypse is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Czarina Wapakoala with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.087 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wapakoaque. 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 arrested in queues for 'loitering', record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Wapakalypse, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wapakalypse's national animal is the koala, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Wapakatheism, and its currency is the wapak.

Wapakalypse is ranked 83rd in Lazarus and 4,396th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 189 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and