Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Gun Nuts of Neo Rhodesia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Bizarro Ted Turner with a fair hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.235 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Salisbury. The average income tax rate is 26%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Tourism industries.

Skateparks can be found in every city, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, and all recreational drugs are legal. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neo Rhodesia's national animal is the Unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is drinking and revenge, and its currency is the Casing.

Neo Rhodesia is ranked 2,783rd in Balder and 127,812th in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -61 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and