Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of Eccy is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.383 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even 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.

Crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Eccy Blood Tithe, and Eccypig is one of the most popular forenames in Eccy. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Eccy's national animal is the eccypig, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the eccles.

Eccy is ranked 2,592nd in Balder and 97,518th 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