Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Kumquatan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.634 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, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 83%, and even 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.

Hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, the Kumquatan Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', and companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave. Crime is totally unknown. Kumquatan's national animal is the mole, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the kumquat.

Kumquatan is ranked 4,675th in the South Pacific and 99,914th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and