Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Allied States of Garbaczia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by a president with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.216 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garbaczia City. The average income tax rate is 64%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in a president's bedroom, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, Garbaczia's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of academic achievement, and students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Garbaczia's national animal is the dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the dragon.

Garbaczia is ranked 2,037th in Balder and 82,202nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and