Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Red Menace of Kleomenes is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 8.416 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Healthcare and Social Welfare are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Patchouli. The average income tax rate is 96%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

Tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants, the nation's favourite colour is red (Kleomenes has found 2 easter eggs), Max Barry is this year's Miss Kleomenes, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kleomenes's national animal is the Flying Guppy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sand Dollar.

Kleomenes is ranked 2,171st in Osiris and 104,785th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -2 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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