Location: Democratic Socialist Assembly

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Socialist Federation of New Bazlantis is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Federal Executive Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 4.049 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 Education, Healthcare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bazlantia. The average income tax rate is 52%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, disaster victims are viewed with disdain, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, and eight year-olds with lemonade stands have been known to be locked up on charges of embezzlement. Crime is relatively low. New Bazlantis's national animal is the Bazlantian Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the bazlar.

New Bazlantis is ranked 126th in Democratic Socialist Assembly and 113,588th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -3 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and