Location: Sparta

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sovereign Republic of New Spartanburg is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Leonidas XIII with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 4.542 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Education and Public Transport are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thermopylae. The average income tax rate is 53%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Tourism.

Citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', New Spartanburg's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Spartanburg's national animal is the cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pheonixe.

New Spartanburg is ranked 12th in Sparta and 95,743rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and