Location: Oileain na Saoirse

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Armed Freedom Fighter of Leila-Khaled is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.31 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 Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of أُورُشَلِيمَ. The average income tax rate is 73%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Re-education centers are being added to most prisons, military barracks resemble five-star hotels, eight year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is pervasive, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Leila-Khaled's national animal is the نسر, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the دينار.

Leila-Khaled is ranked 3rd in Oileain na Saoirse and 95,916th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and