Location: Hattrick

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mysterious Airship of King Carl is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.193 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of King Carl City. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Beef-Based Agriculture.

Manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, loans are available for students from poor families, ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, and a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. King Carl's national animal is the great leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the lats.

King Carl is ranked 1st in Hattrick and 37th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 31 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and