Location: Asia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fiefdom of Lady Rose is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lady Rose with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 20.873 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Healthcare and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meriamne. The average income tax rate is 34%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Invading armies are given hard glares for their cheek, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, and all-natural foods are becoming a major fad. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Lady Rose's national animal is the rude goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Individualism, and its currency is the cough drop.

Lady Rose is ranked 90th in Asia and 130,724th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -15 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and