Location: Antarctica

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Endless Night of Wasserspeier is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Mister Whitney with an iron fist, and notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.093 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, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wurzelstadt. The average income tax rate is 95%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Uranium Mining.

Military service is compulsory, Animal Liberationists are regularly jailed, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, and all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Wasserspeier's national animal is the Manticore, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is The Wasserspeier Church of Death, and its currency is the Unjecuh.

Wasserspeier is ranked 14th in Antarctica and 3,957th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 28 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and