Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Jungle Love is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.163 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of the Environment, with areas such as Law & Order and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. Income tax is unheard of. 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.

It is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, Jungle Love's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, and all judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Jungle Love's national animal is the Elephante, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the coin.

Jungle Love is ranked 181st in Wysteria and 96,708th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and