Location: European Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Cenabum is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.213 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and the Environment are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cenabum. The average income tax rate is 90%, 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.

Children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "Love and peace!" as a way of life, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, meat-eating is frowned upon, and citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages. Crime is totally unknown. Cenabum's national animal is the Ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Euro.

Cenabum is ranked 104th in European Union and 96,170th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and