Location: Greater Prussia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Republic of Kahanistan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the President with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 14.447 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous government concentrates mainly on Education, although Healthcare and Defence are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Masada. The average income tax rate is 14%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The New Masada Times is sold out, CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, and national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. Kahanistan's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is secularism, and its currency is the shekel.

Kahanistan is ranked 16th in Greater Prussia and 91,717th in the world for Best Weather, with -248 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and