Location: European Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of Catalunya i Balears is a massive, safe nation, ruled by President Gabriel Verger with a fair hand, and notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.176 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 concentrates mainly on Defence, although Education and Social Welfare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Palma. The average income tax rate is 46%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Gambling industries.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form, Catalunya i Balears's schoolchildren are manufactured into a segregated bunch of soldiers, religious zealots, and computer technicians, and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catalunya i Balears's national animal is the drac, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is atheism, and its currency is the Euro.

Catalunya i Balears is ranked 35th in European Union and 16,583rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and