Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Royal Amazon Nation of Alsacia Lorraine is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Her Majesty Queen Isabella II with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 2.644 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lilandra. The average income tax rate is 84%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Guns are banned, the ALBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, and priests are being drafted by the church load. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Alsacia Lorraine's national animal is the Lothringen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Roman Catholic, and its currency is the Euro.

Alsacia Lorraine is ranked 325th in Europe and 81,195th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and