Location: Land van Waas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Templars Empire of Jacques de Molay 1307 is a colossal, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 5.565 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Law & Order, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 36%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Soda Sales industries.

Notable individuals are granted land and titles, the study of medicine is popular throughout Jacques de Molay 1307, child adoption by homosexual couples has been outlawed, and religious classes are compulsory for all school students. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jacques de Molay 1307's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Roman Catholicism, and its currency is the goldcoin.

Jacques de Molay 1307 is ranked 1st in Land van Waas and 14,902nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and