Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Kitsym is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kitsym with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.755 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.

The government -- a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass -- juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Honeycomb. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Anti-government web sites are springing up, the police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime, muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions, and the bear is a protected species. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kitsym's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the honey.

Kitsym is ranked 2,224th in the West Pacific and 54,142nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and