Location: The Black Hawks

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Grishnum is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.271 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.

The large government devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 33%. A large private sector is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports industries.

Drug-related crimes carry the death penalty, the Grishnum Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, new urban roads are threatening city parks, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Grishnum's national animal is the Dinosaur, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Dollar.

Grishnum is ranked 231st in The Black Hawks and 84,044th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 8 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and