Location: Versutian Federation

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Crown Commonwealth of Britannic Realms is a massive, safe nation, ruled by King Christian I with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.414 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 61%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Retail, Gambling, and Book Publishing industries.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Britannic Realms's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Church of England, and its currency is the Pound.

Britannic Realms is ranked 121st in Versutian Federation and 74,260th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 16 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and