Location: Qart Hadasht

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Queendom of Catsouras is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.668 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 juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Defence, and Education. The average income tax rate is 52%. A small but healthy private sector is led by the Retail industry, followed by Beef-Based Agriculture and Trout Farming.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Catsouras's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the orange.

Catsouras is ranked 3rd in Qart Hadasht and 74,958th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and