Location: Hampshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Charismatic Charlatans is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.917 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass -- devotes most of its attentions to Social Welfare, with areas such as Law & Order and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 40%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Basket Weaving.

Crime is totally unknown. Charismatic Charlatans's national animal is the cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the charcoal coin.

Charismatic Charlatans is ranked 21st in Hampshire and 31,050th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and