Location: Luxemburg

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Project of EU is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Herman van Rompuy with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.255 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 Commerce, the Environment, and Public Transport. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brussels. The average income tax rate is 38%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Information Technology and Basket Weaving.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, people are moving into treehouses in record numbers, burglary is widely regarded as the national sport, and welfare funding has recently gone through the roof. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. EU's national animal is the PIIGS, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the euro.

EU is ranked 3rd in Luxemburg and 62,530th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and