Location: Warzone Australia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Provinces of Grandton is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Paul Stoerditz with an even hand, and renowned for its suspicion of poets. Its compassionate population of 4.428 billion 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Defence and Law & Order are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Augusta. The average income tax rate is 70%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Information Technology and Tourism.

People regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Grandton's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Protestantism, and its currency is the Provinziensmark.

Grandton is ranked 2nd in Warzone Australia and 9,087th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and