Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth Monarchy of Chiolena is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Emperor Constantius IV with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.894 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chioganah City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39%. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news, voting is voluntary, wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts, and the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Chiolena's national animal is the coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the khanic.

Chiolena is ranked 405th in Europe and 91,650th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and