Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Kevin Ruddistan is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Supreme Emperor-Commander-Admiral Rudd with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.745 billion are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ruddtopia. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

Drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government, nudity is frowned upon, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', and Kevin Ruddistan is increasingly belligerent on the international stage. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kevin Ruddistan's national animal is the Julia Gillard Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Ruddislam - The way of dear Leader, and its currency is the KEV Dollar.

Kevin Ruddistan is ranked 166th in the West Pacific and 7,189th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and