Location: belgium

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Peace of Carolineke is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.908 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 Social Welfare, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carolineburg. The average income tax rate is 84%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', bizarre-looking creatures called 'Leeuwdogs' dominate wildlife preserves, and heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste. Crime is relatively low. Carolineke's national animal is the Leeuw, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Frank.

Carolineke is ranked 87th in belgium and 93,366th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and