Category: Democratic Socialists | ||
Civil Rights: Very Good |
Economy: Good |
Political Freedoms: Average |
Regional Influence: Powerbroker
Location: Niamark
Population | 9.751 billion |
Capital | Nordsville |
Leader | Baris Brevik |
Currency | krone |
Animal | moose |
The Grand Duchy of Nordsville is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Baris Brevik with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate population of 9.751 billion Nordsvilleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nordsville. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The Nordsvillean economy, worth 494 trillion kroner a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,725 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Citizens are remarkably well involved in the political process, the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy, internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be, and proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nordsville's national animal is the moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Nordsville is ranked 34,683rd in the world and 5th in Niamark for Most Cultured, scoring 77 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Nordsville endorsed The Greater Sumerian Empire of New Sukberia.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Smartest Citizens.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Secular.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Inclusive.
- : Nordsville was endorsed by The Greater Sumerian Empire of New Sukberia.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
- : Nordsville was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Education.
World Assembly
Endorsements Received: 3 » Oi Barbaroi, Brulave, and New Sukberia.