Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Increasingly Optimistics of Koteris is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Penthacrene with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.606 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Koteris City. The average income tax rate is 70%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Pizza Delivery.

Nude art is becoming wildly popular, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, and government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a serious problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Koteris's national animal is the Lesser of Two Evils, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Koter.

Koteris is ranked 3,636th in The North Pacific and 85,159th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.12 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and