Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Bretony is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by President Benjamin Matthias with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 14.092 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Forthampton. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Information Technology.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Bretony's national animal is the Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is none, and its currency is the mark sterling .

Bretony is ranked 2,924th in Balder and 128,954th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring -18 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and