Location: Middle Earth

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Concertina Wire is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-working, cynical population of 2.777 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 23%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Concertina Wire's national animal is the seriously, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the stay out.

Concertina Wire is ranked 3rd in Middle Earth and 47,684th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and