Location: Kyzikos

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade of Fratt Armed Forces is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.227 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 Education, Social Equality, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 92%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Torture is illegal, the new hit series "Fratt Armed Forces's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fratt Armed Forces's national animal is the guerrilla fighter, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the francolino.

Fratt Armed Forces is ranked 342nd in Kyzikos and 97,310th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and