Location: Katasia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Carterway is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 13.923 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and the Environment are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Carterway City. The average income tax rate is 53%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Carterway is building an army to protect its overseas territories, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, and military spending is on the increase. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carterway's national animal is the frumious bandersnatch, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the quatloo.

Carterway is ranked 2nd in Katasia and 15,404th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and