Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Gross Twuelpstedt is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 18.982 billion 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, the GTBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, abortions are routinely performed in Gross Twuelpstedt's hospitals, and heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gross Twuelpstedt's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the euro.

Gross Twuelpstedt is ranked 4,258th in The East Pacific and 100,552nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and