Location: England

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Delightful Land of Friends In Frenzy is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 9.44 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of Social Welfare, with areas such as Defence and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 7%, but much higher for the wealthy. 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.

The rich are forced to sell their cars to pay for more police to prevent their cars from being stolen, libraries are bulldozed to make way for internet cafés, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, and unemployment rates have skyrocketed as businesses abandon the country in search of cheap labour. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Friends In Frenzy's national animal is the dancing bush-baby, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the europound.

Friends In Frenzy is ranked 55th in England and 101,509th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -19 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and