Location: Kittens Sanctuary

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Frogkin is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by KeroKero the First with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.328 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on the Environment, although Social Welfare and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Frogadella Terra. The average income tax rate is 82%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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 minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies, a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, and businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation’s borders. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Frogkin's national animal is the Frogentoads, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the wibbit.

Frogkin is ranked 11th in Kittens Sanctuary and 100,301st 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