Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Zizzi is a huge, economically powerful nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 589 million are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business 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 Pig Head. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number, the government is a law unto itself, and psychological disorders are a taboo subject. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem. Zizzi's national animal is the Pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Coin.

Zizzi is ranked 45th in Europeia and 5,425th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring 13 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and