Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Armed Republic of Amet is a huge, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 280 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of Defence, Social Welfare, and Commerce. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29%. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Meat-eating is frowned upon, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, a dictator has seized power and outlawed elections, and employers may fire workers without giving any reason. Crime is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Amet's national animal is the Fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Amet Doller.

Amet is ranked 1,727th in Balder and 72,744th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and