Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Cyberpunk Shogunate of Warren Land is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Armored Command Zeppelin with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 11.958 billion are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hangar 18. The average income tax rate is 71%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Book Publishing and Cheese Exports.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Warren Land's national animal is the deforester, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Gospel of the Wyld Stallyns, and its currency is the sex coupon.

Warren Land is ranked 334th in Balder and 10,502nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -5 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and