Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Tropical Island of Cnidaria is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.082 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cnidaria City. 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.

Radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cnidaria's national animal is the Jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Fig.

Cnidaria is ranked 2,081st in 10000 Islands and 100,417th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and