Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Sanctified Lands of Kyozou is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Toireasa Lione with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5.81 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jericho. The average income tax rate is 92%, 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.

The government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, and every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kyozou's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the denari.

Kyozou is ranked 3,525th in Lazarus and 99,611th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and