Location: Pirate Encampment

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rogue Nation of Nethrezite Pirates is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 821 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 34%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Beef-Based Agriculture.

The airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, and Nethrezite Pirates recently decided against having a capital city. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nethrezite Pirates's national animal is the Bloodhawk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Ducats.

Nethrezite Pirates is ranked 2nd in Pirate Encampment and 69,070th 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