Italy became a nation-state belatedly - in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula and Sicily were united under King Victor Emmanuel. The Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini that took over after World War I led to a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany and Italian defeat in World War II. Revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC) and has joined in the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe. Persistent problems include illegal immigration, the ravages of organized crime, corruption, high unemployment, and the low incomes and technical standards of southern Italy compared with the more prosperous north.
Demographic Data
Capital: Rome
Government type: Democracy
Government stability: 92.1%
Government efficiency: 94.3%
Population's support to government: 92.3%
Area: 294,020 square kilometers
Habitable land: 81.0%
Farmable land: 32.0%
Total population: 58,261 thousands
Population's growth: 0.2%
Country's development level: 9,140
Economic Data
GNP: 998,900,000,000
Industralisation: 67.0%
International funding: 2,497,000,000
Political Data
Secret services efficiency: 5,865
Military Data
Technological generation: 3
Number of rebels: 1,165
Rebels development: 8,226
Rebels technological access: 6,397