Location: The United Kingdom

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Harry Potter Fans of Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Emma Watson with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.012 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 the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paris. The average income tax rate is 74%, 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.

Dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, voting is voluntary, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson to be bombproof. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a major problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson's national animal is the fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the English pound.

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is ranked 12th in The United Kingdom and 96,970th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and