Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Foolish States of New Gonch is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Sixtus the Sixth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.336 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 Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gonchtropolis. The average income tax rate is 64%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Furniture Restoration.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects, torture is illegal, and the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Gonch's national animal is the Woodie, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the SilverSliver.

New Gonch is ranked 2,430th in Lazarus and 77,872nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and