Location: American Continent

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Latin Republic of El Dejarbo is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by President Roberta Ruiz with a fair hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 16.541 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Renu Grande. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

Private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over El Dejarbo, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Dejarbo's national animal is the chupacabra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Genesisian Catholicism, and its currency is the peso.

El Dejarbo is ranked 18th in American Continent and 130,650th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -385 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and