Location: Corona Borealis

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Armed Republic of Graveyard is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Rex1222 with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 956 million enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rextopia City. The average income tax rate is 74%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, government popup ads are springing up like weeds, the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest CENTAURI hunting institutions, and major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Graveyard's national animal is the CENTAURI, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the CERES.

Graveyard is ranked 4th in Corona Borealis and 80,657th 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