Location: Absolution

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Lost in the Big House Fandom of Coffee Cakes is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Arby McDonald with a fair hand, and notable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.592 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, liberal, pro-business individuals is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drake's. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Tourism industries.

A typical fast food menu item could serve a small army, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Coffee Cakes's radio stations, bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers', and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Coffee Cakes's national animal is the pelican, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity and Judaism and Drunkenism, and its currency is the crumb.

Coffee Cakes is ranked 56th in Absolution and 6,894th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and