Location: Ionia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Kellestine is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 13.393 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67%, 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.

Heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste and avoid even more costly cleanup costs, voting is voluntary, Presbyterian has been named as Kellestine's national religion, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime is totally unknown. Kellestine's national animal is the black bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Presbyterian, and its currency is the dollar.

Kellestine is ranked 3rd in Ionia and 7th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 200 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and