Location: Region Inc

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Constitutional Monarchy of Kirschwasser is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 583 million are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Religion & Spirituality and Public Transport are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirschwasser City. The average income tax rate is 26%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day, Kirschwasser's first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded, children have only the most basic of education, and the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Kirschwasser's national animal is the Kirschhörnchen, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sauerkirsch.

Kirschwasser is ranked 305th in Region Inc and 81,861st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and