Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Essenhorn is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.959 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and Healthcare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Guns are banned, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, students cut up leftover creds during Arts and Crafts, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Essenhorn's national animal is the chimp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the cred.

Essenhorn is ranked 2,082nd in Balder and 83,279th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and