Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Lawless Community of Fraton is a colossal, economically powerful nation, notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.1 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Healthcare, and Education. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Book Publishing industries.

Surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity, the people are furious with the government for allowing citizens to be executed for petty crimes in foreign countries, fur coats have become the latest fashion trend, and government spending has hit an all-time low. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Fraton's national animal is the aardvark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the coin.

Fraton is ranked 2,126th in 10000 Islands and 94,163rd in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -259 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and