Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Society of Kokkinostan is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.641 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Equality and Social Welfare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 98%. 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.

Space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, abortions are routinely performed in Kokkinostan's hospitals, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is totally unknown. Kokkinostan's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Standard.

Kokkinostan is ranked 2,070th in 10000 Islands and 99,980th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and