Location: Esportiva

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Raging River Nation of 19th Century Beards is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Everyone with a fair hand, and notable for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.566 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 Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rushdon. The average income tax rate is 91%, 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.

The government seizes the property of the recently deceased, the government is giving peace a chance, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime is totally unknown. 19th Century Beards's national animal is the Small Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Tirpitz.

19th Century Beards is ranked 34th in Esportiva and 97,080th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and