NationStates Jolt Archive


Survey of fear in Sarrowquand. (open)

Sarrowquand
24-10-2008, 21:43
Recent surveys carried out by the Grey Bureaucracy have revealed that whilst most Dominion citizens are comparitively well adjusted several phobias are quite prominent within Sarrowquand.

Notably coulrophobia, the fear of clowns is at 8%, perhaps due to their traditional role in folklore as evil trickster demons. Claustrophobia, vertigo and agoraphobia exist at levels slightly higher then would be expected within a late modern population suggesting that concerns over the control of public and private space remain relevent: Fears relating to economic success, high taxation and inheritance have increased greatly in the last ten years owing perhaps to the increasing emphasis the government has placed on the economy and the erosion of labor laws. Further studies are being comissioned to properly track the human cost of an all-consuming economy.

Meanwhile`the Technocracy's social scientists are inviting insights from the international community into what fills their citizens with dread.
Sarrowquand
24-10-2008, 23:23
No one interested in discussing the pet fears of their people?