Location: Lost Horizon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Wandering Peeps of Francisco Sendrijas is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.887 billion are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 35%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Furniture Restoration.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular, and Leader is the self-declared God of all Francisco Sendrijas. Crime is moderate. Francisco Sendrijas's national animal is the chicken-hawk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Animism, and its currency is the cheese dip.

Francisco Sendrijas is ranked 2nd in Lost Horizon and 59,768th 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