Location: GLUSER

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Alliance of Eristic People of Burgess Beach is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Marko Recovisch with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.186 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, socially-minded 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 Jekia. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, organ donation is compulsory, and protests are legal but strictly supervised. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burgess Beach's national animal is the savagard, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Taoism, and its currency is the rumian.

Burgess Beach is ranked 1st in GLUSER and 6,574th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 41 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and