Location: United Kingdom

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Commonwealth of Burnzland is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by King Michael III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 11.076 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Absalon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Uranium Mining.

The government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, most citizens in Burnzland are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burnzland's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Roman Catholicism, and its currency is the Burnzlandian crown.

Burnzland is ranked 11th in United Kingdom and 5,590th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and