Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Socialist Republic of Larsistan is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Erik Larsson with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.091 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

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, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Larsistan City. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even higher for the wealthy. A tiny private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options, and pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government. Crime is totally unknown. Larsistan's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the courrant.

Larsistan is ranked 1,561st in 10000 Islands and 84,339th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and