Location: Flavian Amphitheatre

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy Duchy Dutch of Le Duche is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Ronald Grump with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 16.69 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lindblum. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining industries.

Motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, Animal Liberationists are regularly jailed, Melanias are becoming popular in pet stores nationwide, and vanity is considered the eighth cardinal virtue. Crime is crippling. Le Duche's national animal is the Melania, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Trump.

Le Duche is ranked 1st in Flavian Amphitheatre and 2nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 41 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and