Location: Luxemburg

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Transcendental Kettledrummer of Delusions of Grandeur is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.279 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, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Delusions of Grandeur City. The average income tax rate is 49%, but much 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.

The upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, and libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Delusions of Grandeur's national animal is the Grandeur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Delusion.

Delusions of Grandeur is ranked 4th in Luxemburg and 94,540th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and