Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Allied Huggable Fluffies of Kitabo is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 16.114 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 92%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted, motels cater primarily to adulterers, and the government funds large training centres to turn likitos into functioning members of society. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Kitabo's national animal is the likito, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the quad.

Kitabo is ranked 4,545th in The North Pacific and 100,818th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and