Location: belgium

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The 32 of -------------------------------- is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.209 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of -------------------------------- City. The average income tax rate is 76%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, army rations are served on silver platters, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. --------------------------------'s national animal is the 32, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the 32.

-------------------------------- is ranked 13th in belgium and 16,300th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 8 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and