Location: Europe

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Global Trust Cooperative of The Old English Order is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Director Octavius McGregor with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.678 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edinburgh. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail industries.

Military spending is on the increase, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, and waste is frequently shipped to other countries. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. The Old English Order's national animal is the Harrier, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Cruci.

The Old English Order is ranked 532nd in Europe and 126,292nd in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 18 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and