Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of Lexembourg is a massive, devout nation, ruled by Grand Duchess Adélaïde with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.025 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ville Lexembourg. The average income tax rate is 1%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Woodchip Exports and Gambling.

Penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative', the government seizes all major gold finds, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, and commuter vessels have trouble staying afloat due to increased passengers. Crime is a serious problem. Lexembourg's national animal is the panthera leo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Roman Catholicism, and its currency is the franc.

Lexembourg is ranked 124th in Europe and 19,998th 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