Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Federal Republic of Jordone is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by President Joffman with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.746 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and the Environment are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jordhai. The average income tax rate is 73%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-Jordan mansions, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, the government is avowedly atheist, and colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Jordone's national animal is the Jordonian Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Jordan.

Jordone is ranked 2,430th in Balder and 93,433rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and