Location: The Embolalian Archipelago

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Embryo is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 822 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 35%, but much higher for the wealthy. A very small private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Cheese Exports and Basket Weaving.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force. Embryo's national animal is the fetus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sperm.

Embryo is ranked 6th in The Embolalian Archipelago and 72,038th 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