Location: The Heartland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Constitutional Republic of East Klent is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Cash Willows not RPd with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.123 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

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 Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Williamsburg DK. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Arms Manufacturing.

Employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers, immigrants flood the job queues as discrimination in the workplace makes a staggering comeback, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, and teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Klent's national animal is the Qua Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Klento.

East Klent is ranked 5th in The Heartland and 2,099th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and