Location: Hyrule

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Void of Kritschboilek is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 13.834 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Education and the Environment are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 16%, but much higher for the wealthy. 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.

Local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food", Kritschboilek's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of academic achievement, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, and kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun". Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Kritschboilek's national animal is the coelacanth, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the heavily-inflated Kritschboilekean dollar.

Kritschboilek is ranked 26th in Hyrule and 101,561st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -21 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and