Location: The Internationale

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fexofenadine Hydrochloride of East Ranford is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.555 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.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass -- concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 37%, 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.

Scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of East Ranford's radio stations, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, and gambling is outlawed. Crime is relatively low. East Ranford's national animal is the goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the stirrup.

East Ranford is ranked 187th in The Internationale and 39,100th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 4 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and