Location: European Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Jaula is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Oscar Alho with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.639 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Batemuma. The average income tax rate is 93%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

All footpaths have tollbooths, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, extreme political groups are outlawed, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jaula's national animal is the sócrates, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the migalhas.

Jaula is ranked 114th in European Union and 100,446th 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