Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Kiripolec is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Grey council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.886 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

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 Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Na vrsku. The average income tax rate is 32%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, and condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kiripolec's national animal is the pidgeon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the deravy gros.

Kiripolec is ranked 291st in the South Pacific and 10,394th 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