Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Military Alliance of Gig em Aggies is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Budzisz with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.021 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reveille City . The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Protests are prohibited from blocking traffic, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, the government is a law unto itself, and wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gig em Aggies's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Catholic, and its currency is the Reveille .

Gig em Aggies is ranked 133rd in Texas and 86,807th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and