Location: Central Pacific Empire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Beirut City is a massive, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.399 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology industries.

Many newspapers agree that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive", citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months, and female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Beirut City's national animal is the Birds, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Lira.

Beirut City is ranked 42nd in Central Pacific Empire and 111,969th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with -1 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and