Location: 10000 Islands

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The Free Society of Kokkinostan is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.806 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 the Environment are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, and Kokkinostan's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. 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 2,660th in 10000 Islands and 130,371st in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -13 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and