Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Revolutionary Force of Nak nak is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Allmighty Nak Nak with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20.397 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NakNakdam. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Automobile Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

The people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", drunk drivers are sentenced to death, and the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Nak nak's national animal is the Elvis, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is NakNakism, and its currency is the Storm.

Nak nak is ranked 23rd in Wysteria and 290th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 265 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and