Location: belgium

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Matrakken of Nationstates gendarmen is a colossal, devout nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8.011 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nationstates gendarmen City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing.

Door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', waste is frequently shipped to other countries, Red Cross demand for body bags are rising while sutures are decreasing, and military geniuses responsible for brilliant campaigns are drummed out because they have close same-sex friends and an interest in interior design. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Nationstates gendarmen's national animal is the drugshond, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Order, and its currency is the matrak.

Nationstates gendarmen is ranked 8th in belgium and 6,387th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and