Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Masterly Run Paradise of Arnim is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Mickey with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.284 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Free Market. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Tourism and Book Publishing.

Minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel, a recent law has banned homes from having any more than one wheel, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arnim's national animal is the Bengal Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is the 10th Amendment, and its currency is the all mighty gold coin.

Arnim is ranked 12th in Texas and 2,391st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and