Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Federation of Callidia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by a Federal Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.89 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 Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 41%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Motels cater primarily to adulterers, the CBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Callidia City Times is sold out. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Callidia's national animal is the Wood Grouse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sercen.

Callidia is ranked 2,556th in Lazarus and 81,697th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and