Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Republic of Korduvan is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Thomas Lyons with a fair hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 919 million 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 Education, Defence, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tannis. The average income tax rate is 78%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism, Book Publishing, and Gambling industries.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Tannis Times is sold out, all guns must be registered, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Korduvan to be bombproof. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Korduvan's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Lio.

Korduvan is ranked 140th in Canada and 95,116th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and