Location: Australia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic Aristocracy of Caiomhin is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.723 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jameston. The average income tax rate is 27%, but much higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, refugees from other nations are flocking to Caiomhin's border, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Caiomhin's national animal is the Wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Aurum.

Caiomhin is ranked 2nd in Australia and 297th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 215 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and