Location: Manitoba

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Apolytonian Surfdom of Grant Park - Harrow is a colossal, devout nation, ruled by Jimmie with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 7.062 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Healthcare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockwood. The average income tax rate is 43%. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions, innocent people are routinely stoned to death by frenzied lynch mobs, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Grant Park - Harrow's national animal is the pirate, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the zuken.

Grant Park - Harrow is ranked 5th in Manitoba and 78,812th 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