Location: Nederland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Idiotic Cesspool of Juristonia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Juri with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.765 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Juritopia. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The arms industry is strictly regulated, citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, and the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda. Crime is totally unknown. Juristonia's national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Cuban boy.

Juristonia is ranked 108th in Nederland and 99,496th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -7 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and