Location: belgium

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The World Wide Web of West-Flanders is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by King Ikke with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 19.251 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be 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 Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of W-City. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, anti-government web sites are springing up, political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The W-City Times is sold out. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West-Flanders's national animal is the lintworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is atheisme, and its currency is the euro.

West-Flanders is ranked 103rd in belgium and 101,231st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -66 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and