Location: Florence

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Most Serene Republic of Fiorentina Founder is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 3.341 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 43%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

Voting is voluntary. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fiorentina Founder's national animal is the Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Lira.

Fiorentina Founder is ranked 1st in Florence and 57,236th 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