Location: British Isles

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The Kingdom of ClaytonThereby is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Clayton with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 1.762 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Claymetropolis. The average income tax rate is 89%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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 police crack down on tax evaders without mercy, a government program is underway to revitalize ClaytonThereby's beaches, citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, and houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ClaytonThereby's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Jarvinias.

ClaytonThereby is ranked 43rd in British Isles and 9,464th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 22 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and