Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Guiding Hand of EuroFounder is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, cynical population of 18.507 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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.

Burglary is widely regarded as the national sport, education and welfare spending are on the rise, suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, and elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-euro mansions. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. EuroFounder's national animal is the eurocrat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the euro.

EuroFounder is ranked 469th in Europe and 97,890th 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