Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Cial is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.632 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 96%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The horse is a protected species, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, and the government tries to improve relations with hostile countries by sending gift baskets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cial's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the ruby.

Cial is ranked 4,207th in The East Pacific and 98,547th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and