Location: Hattrick

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mysterious Airship of King Carl is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20.35 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business 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.

Bicyclists are banned from major roads, the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, military spending is on the increase, and genetic researchers have been expelled. 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 114,663rd in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 46 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and