Location: European Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of Brecon2 is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Maja Nordstrand with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.094 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amiens. The average income tax rate is 100%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Students in Brecon2's schools rarely attend their classes, referenda are held for every conceivable government action, graffiti graces every city's streets, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Brecon2's national animal is the boar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the florin.

Brecon2 is ranked 116th in European Union and 101,362nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -15 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and