Location: New York

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of BRBLand is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 936 million 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 is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bobbiepolis. The average income tax rate is 67%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining industries.

The government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', membership in the state-owned Church of BRBLand is mandatory and all other faith organisations are banned, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. BRBLand's national animal is the Caveman, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the shiny rock.

BRBLand is ranked 47th in New York and 37,575th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and