Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of New South Elbonia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Big Tony with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.885 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, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New South Elbonia City. The average income tax rate is 83%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Tourism and Pizza Delivery.

Motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of New South Elbonia's radio stations, and heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New South Elbonia's national animal is the Cerberus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pwnzor.

New South Elbonia is ranked 1,097th in Europeia and 88,324th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and