Location: Current Events

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic Republic of CEsylvania is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chancellor Mission Abort with an even hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.164 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mr Happy's Funland. The average income tax rate is 4%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, morning coffees are no longer the same since the disappearance of newspapers, and X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a major problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. CEsylvania's national animal is the duck-billed platypus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the CEnt.

CEsylvania is ranked 1st in Current Events and 15,402nd 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