Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Socialist Commonwealth of Kelssek is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President Dominique Drapeau with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 20.056 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neorvins. The average income tax rate is 98%. A tiny private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, the government is avowedly atheist, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kelssek's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the loonie.

Kelssek is ranked 1,542nd in The East Pacific and 36,520th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 145 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and