Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Honorable Republic of Darakin is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ashton Q Westchester III with a fair hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.575 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 Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darakin Citadel. The average income tax rate is 79%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, voting is voluntary, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, and protests are legal but strictly supervised. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Darakin's national animal is the puma, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the shmingel.

Darakin is ranked 192nd in the South Pacific and 9,178th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 20 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and