Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Zicia is a colossal, economically powerful nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 5.423 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Law & Order receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ziciburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, the government is pouring funds into the nation's welfare system, and volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (Zicia has found 1 easter egg). Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zicia's national animal is the chameleon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Euro.

Zicia is ranked 475th in Europe and 116,275th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 8 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and