Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Nomadic Peoples of Kaskadya is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its enforced nudity. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 760 million 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, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaskadya City. The average income tax rate is 35%, 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.

There have been reports of people marrying housepets, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, the people of Kaskadya are renowned for their nihilistic attitudes, and the insurance industry is outlawed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Kaskadya's national animal is the human, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the BBBJTCWS.

Kaskadya is ranked 2,455th in Osiris and 113,058th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -3 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and