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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Ay Karamba is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Poobah Karambano with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.205 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Welfare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karamba. The average income tax rate is 11%. 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.

Multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem. Ay Karamba's national animal is the Karamba, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Karamba.

Ay Karamba is ranked 391st in The Black Hawks and 112,498th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -3 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and