Location: Absolution

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of TurboKill is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Wussles with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 8.724 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Teidan. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

A typical fast food menu item could serve a small army, students cut up leftover yuaos during Arts and Crafts, all-natural foods are becoming a major fad, and the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in TurboKill. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TurboKill's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the yuao.

TurboKill is ranked 66th in Absolution and 6,824th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 40 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and