Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Kingdom of Great Britan and Ireland is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 568 million are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, pro-business individuals concentrates mainly on Defence, although Religion & Spirituality and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Britan and Ireland City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing industries.

Military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds', police are arresting costumed characters at comic book conventions, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and the army is returning some law and order to the streets. Crime is a major problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Great Britan and Ireland's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the pound.

Great Britan and Ireland is ranked 902nd in Lazarus and 21,318th 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