Location: Halo

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Eruption of Eddie Van Halen is a massive, devout nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.171 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be 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 Social Welfare, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 37%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Retail.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eddie Van Halen's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the guitar.

Eddie Van Halen is ranked 3rd in Halo and 73,716th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and