Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Liberal Republic of Jenienland is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.778 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 Law & Order, Healthcare, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 49%, but much higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Book Publishing.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and eight out of ten children believe hard lemonade gives you cirrhosis of the liver. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jenienland's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the jenien dollar.

Jenienland is ranked 1,970th in Osiris and 76,617th 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