Location: The YoungWorld

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Le souls is a massive, devout nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 2.935 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Law & Order and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 47%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

All guns must be registered, the government snoops on private internet connections, the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Le souls's national animal is the python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the inu.

Le souls is ranked 24th in The YoungWorld and 74,032nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and