Location: EU Overseas Territories

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Lombardo-Venetien is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 593 million are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Religion & Spirituality, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mailand. The average income tax rate is 38%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture industries.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, and several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Lombardo-Venetien's national animal is the boar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the florin.

Lombardo-Venetien is ranked 3rd in EU Overseas Territories and 4,655th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring 16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and