Location: USSR

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Unruly Confederation of CoolHandLuke is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Luke the Champion with a fair hand, and remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.46 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 the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ChainGang Central. The average income tax rate is 98%. 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 government is avowedly atheist, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists. Crime is totally unknown. CoolHandLuke's national animal is the bender, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Boiled Egg.

CoolHandLuke is ranked 155th in USSR and 100,310th 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