Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Empire of Wood Pigeons is a massive, safe nation, ruled by a pigeon bishop with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.564 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

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 Healthcare are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Coo. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining industries.

Traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled Wood Pigeons with a very polite populace, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wood Pigeons's national animal is the Pigeon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is The Feathered One, and its currency is the Bits of Corn.

Wood Pigeons is ranked 1,347th in The North Pacific and 29,465th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -10 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and