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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Drunken Yahoos of The Italian Club is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Charlie O with an even hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed population of 2.484 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Highpants City. The average income tax rate is 90%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, and main battle tanks stalk the woods of The Italian Club in search of AlSuckss. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Italian Club's national animal is the AlSucks, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Beer chips.

The Italian Club is ranked 11th in bonvanasmith and 8,466th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 23 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and