Location: Iran

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Arsacid Empire of Carrhae Harran is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.965 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Social Welfare, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 60%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carrhae Harran's national animal is the horse archer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the parthian shot.

Carrhae Harran is ranked 44th in Iran and 80,406th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and