Location: Stargate

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Planetary Union of Casl is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Appointed One with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.273 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Commerce. The average income tax rate is 53%, 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.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel, and citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling". Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Casl's national animal is the Unsin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Zanum.

Casl is ranked 25th in Stargate and 54,795th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 125 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and