Location: Nasicournia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Drunken Goodness of Beer_Meisters is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by King Beer with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 10.787 billion 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Law & Order and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lagerstan. The average income tax rate is 98%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, smoking is banned in public areas, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beer_Meisters's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the pint.

Beer_Meisters is ranked 9th in Nasicournia and 3,804th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and