Location: Esportiva

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Cream tea for 11sees of Cyborg Holland is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Tim de Leede with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.291 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Amzterdam. The average income tax rate is 82%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing.

Fortified nursing homes are wracked with daily skirmishes, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and Cyborg Holland successfully hosted the Esportiva Olympics. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cyborg Holland's national animal is the New Holland Warbeler, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is New Dutch Catholic, and its currency is the New Holland Dollar.

Cyborg Holland is ranked 32nd in Esportiva and 95,740th 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