Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic Republic of Capricania is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Premier EvanderX with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.264 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Lihydra . The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

Long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Capricania's national animal is the Blue Cardinal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the titanium dollar.

Capricania is ranked 488th in Europe and 99,641st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and