Location: Quebec

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Desportes is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 661 million are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 18%. A very small private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public and voting is voluntary. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Desportes's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the dollar.

Desportes is ranked 8th in Quebec and 57,217th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and