Location: Lost

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Borderlands of Lakauser is a massive, safe nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.093 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 Religion & Spirituality are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 49%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Voting is voluntary. Crime is well under control. Lakauser's national animal is the grown up kitten, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the kitten.

Lakauser is ranked 2nd in Lost and 65,710th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 0 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and