Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Keldrick is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the First Counsel with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.239 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alaria. The average income tax rate is 94%, 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.

A government program is underway to revitalize Keldrick's beaches, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, and CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Keldrick's national animal is the Falcon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Marillion.

Keldrick is ranked 1,273rd in Europeia and 97,976th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and