Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Common Union of Greater Prusslaw is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Grand Admiral the Rt Hon Emperor Vimes with a fair hand, and notable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.132 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mikołajazielonejmiasto. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted, the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit, and protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Prusslaw's national animal is the Red Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Rzeczpospolita.

Greater Prusslaw is ranked 327th in Europe and 81,197th 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