Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Chelsspence is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 887 million 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chelsspence City. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work, and movies and computer games are strictly censored for violence. Crime is totally unknown. Chelsspence's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Chels.

Chelsspence is ranked 374th in Europe and 87,637th 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