Location: Occitania

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of Narbonne Sur Le Mer is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 611 million love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Healthcare and Defence are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 38%, but much higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Book Publishing and Cheese Exports.

UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, the new hit series "Narbonne Sur Le Mer's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', and the insurance industry is outlawed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Narbonne Sur Le Mer's national animal is the Eastern Imperial Eagle, and its currency is the Occitan Euro.

Narbonne Sur Le Mer is ranked 11th in Occitania and 47,287th 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