NationStates | The Thunder Road of El Pat

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“You can look but you better not touch”

Category: Civil Rights Lovefest
Civil Rights: Excellent	Economy: Basket Case	Political Freedoms: Widely Abused

Regional Influence: Minnow

Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Thunder Road of El Pat is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Boss with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 8.147 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 Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salida. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in El Pat's many privately-owned prisons, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, all guns must be registered, and El Pat has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. El Pat's national animal is the Red Headed Woman, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Price You Pay.

El Pat is ranked 168th in Texas and 101,265th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -14 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity: 23 hours ago

13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, El Pat has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world.
13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, all guns must be registered.
1 day 13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes.
1 day 13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in El Pat's many privately-owned prisons.
2 days 13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, parents are held criminally responsible for their children's crimes.
2 days 13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, children are raised bilingual from an early age.
3 days 13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs.
3 days 13 hours ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed.
4 days ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists.
4 days ago: Following new legislation in El Pat, truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news.

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