Location: Antarctic Oasis

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Imperial Chiefdom of Krioval is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chief Dylan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 10.929 billion 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karo Tevas. The average income tax rate is 82%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing industries.

Tourists outnumber citizens two to one, students abandon classrooms for online education, a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army, and the government funds large training centres to turn gold dragons into functioning members of society. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Krioval's national animal is the gold dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is evolutionary pantheism, and its currency is the yen.

Krioval is ranked 48th in Antarctic Oasis and 94,699th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -376 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and