Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Beauvoir is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate population of 746 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sartre. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining industries.

Heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', and the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beauvoir's national animal is the Raven, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Logix.

Beauvoir is ranked 99th in Europe and 12,736th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and