Location: Ionia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Carruthers is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.261 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4%. A small private sector is dominated by the Retail industry.

Voting is voluntary, all tariffs have been abolished, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime is pervasive, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Carruthers's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the dollar.

Carruthers is ranked 273rd in Ionia and 123,928th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring -2 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and