Location: Aizengard

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Imperial Directorate of Aqua Regia is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.803 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Social Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 65%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining industries.

The military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, and citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Aqua Regia's national animal is the grenchler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the regice.

Aqua Regia is ranked 1st in Aizengard and 5,037th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 82 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and