Location: Hello Kitty

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Ghostly Arrowship of Combusken is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Hello Kitty with an iron fist, and notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.165 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Friendship. The average income tax rate is 99%. A robust private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers, retail stores offer sales every hour on the hour, corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks, and young people crowd pizza parlors praying to 'The Supreme Pizza, His Immaculate Munchiness'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Combusken's national animal is the chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the kawaii.

Combusken is ranked 2nd in Hello Kitty and 8,313th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and