Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Allied States of Bla alb is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Fuk Mi with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed population of 14.793 billion 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 is mainly concerned with Defence, although the Environment and Public Transport are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of P-Town. The average income tax rate is 98%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Bla alb Blood Tithe, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home, Bla alb has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, and prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bla alb's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dolla dolla bill yall.

Bla alb is ranked 1,275th in the Rejected Realms and 99,521st 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