Location: Occitania

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principality of Saone-Et-Loire is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed population of 2.424 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 44%, but much higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is led by the Gambling, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports industries.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, the Saone-Et-Loire Mental Asylum Party have recently won seats in parliament, businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, and radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saone-Et-Loire's national animal is the Black Stork, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Occitan Euro.

Saone-Et-Loire is ranked 22nd in Occitania and 74,835th in the world for Most Conservative, scoring 46 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and