Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Globainia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 755 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

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, Defence, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Global. The average income tax rate is 58%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Uranium Mining.

Parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, untold millions of Globes are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, the government seizes all major gold finds, and people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight. Crime is totally unknown. Globainia's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Globe.

Globainia is ranked 2,358th in Lazarus and 76,167th 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