Location: New England

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The New York Ambassador of Gell-Queens is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.584 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Healthcare, and Religion & Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 41%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, the Federal Council of Gell-Queens has been announced as the new Head of State, and eight out of ten children believe hard lemonade gives you cirrhosis of the liver. Crime is relatively low. Gell-Queens's national animal is the giant, and its currency is the crown.

Gell-Queens is ranked 5th in New England and 51,739th 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