Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Duchy of New Stettin is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mike the Mighty with a fair hand, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.299 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, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Stettin. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave, fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, and there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Stettin's national animal is the Griffin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Deus, and its currency is the Caprot.

New Stettin is ranked 428th in Europe and 93,747th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and