Location: Region of Elyswer

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Liberal Democratic Democracy of Eco-Educa is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its parental licensing program. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 975 million 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 concentrates mainly on Education, although the Environment and Social Welfare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Books and Trees. The average income tax rate is 70%, 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.

Tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the Eco-Educa Blood Tithe, marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home, the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, and most citizens in Eco-Educa are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime is totally unknown. Eco-Educa's national animal is the Owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Leaf.

Eco-Educa is ranked 25th in Region of Elyswer and 92,095th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and