Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Estigovinia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Alexander the great with an even hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.532 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

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 Tallinn. The average income tax rate is 87%. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The nation has an international reputation for compassion, students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class, the wreckages of bombed planes that litter Estigovinia are highly popular tourist destinations, and protests are legal but strictly supervised. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Estigovinia's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Kroon.

Estigovinia is ranked 475th in Europe and 98,535th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and