Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Most Serene Republic of Junera is a huge, safe nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate population of 953 million 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 Social Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Oomla. The average income tax rate is 49%, but much higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Furniture Restoration.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, the new hit series "Junera's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, and property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Junera's national animal is the Liger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Juka.

Junera is ranked 3,581st in The East Pacific and 80,239th 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