Location: Eagleland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Empire of Defenestrators is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.148 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Prague. The average income tax rate is 97%. 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.

Defenestrators has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Defenestrators's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Catholicism, and its currency is the Euro.

Defenestrators is ranked 4th in Eagleland and 99,535th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and