Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Former Baldern King of Charles Cerebella is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.755 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49%. A healthy private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Gambling.

Roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, the Charles Cerebella Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', and violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner. Crime is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Charles Cerebella's national animal is the Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sterling.

Charles Cerebella is ranked 982nd in Balder and 30,216th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 28 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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