Location: The Federated Klatchian Coast

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Glorious Kingdom of Vrak is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.189 billion enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Commerce are on the agenda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 93%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing industries.

There are no minimum wage laws, the government has undertaken a massive education and health program to combat VODAIS, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste and avoid even more costly cleanup costs. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Vrak's national animal is the chickaroach, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Klatchian Kronor.

Vrak is ranked 4th in The Federated Klatchian Coast and 100,997th in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring -15 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and