Location: Chop Suey

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Royal Dominion of Provinces of New Vinland is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Prime Minister James Bell with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.292 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of LaFontaine. The average income tax rate is 56%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, euthanasia is illegal, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Vinland's national animal is the Canada Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Presbyterian Reformed Protestant Church, and its currency is the New Vinland Crown.

New Vinland is ranked 1st in Chop Suey and 121,497th in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -20 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and