Location: The NationStates Community

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Jingoistic States of Testlandia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 19.008 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 juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Testlandi. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52%. A substantial private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Tourism and Soda Sales.

Most citizens in Testlandia are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and welfare funding has recently gone through the roof. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive. Testlandia's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the concept.

Testlandia is ranked 25th in The NationStates Community and 38,420th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and