Location: European Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Friede is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chairman Foley with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.117 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Meero. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

The mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The New Meero Times is sold out. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Friede's national animal is the Gorilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Friedemark.

Friede is ranked 10th in European Union and 2,621st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and