Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republican Concord of Ikonja is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by its Chancellor with an even hand, and notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 12.274 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Commerce, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crossroads. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Automobile Manufacturing and Soda Sales.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the government has enacted freedom of information, the government has become increasingly militant, and the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ikonja's national animal is the Haribon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the merito.

Ikonja is ranked 2,577th in Balder and 118,072nd in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -7 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and