Location: Korel

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Grandon Prime is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 582 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Trinidad. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The studies of art and philosophy are banned, teenage fathers are forced to join the army, private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grandon Prime's national animal is the Valvan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Drank.

Grandon Prime is ranked 26th in Korel and 76,753rd 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