Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Clariks is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Marauder Shields with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.052 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ra Pendulos. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The new hit series "Clariks's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, disaster victims are viewed with disdain, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, and postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation. Crime is totally unknown. Clariks's national animal is the Stoned Crab, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Discordianism, and its currency is the Dieldoz.

Clariks is ranked 2,306th in The East Pacific and 53,139th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and