Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Empire of Lockion is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Imperator with an even hand, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.729 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Social Welfare and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kalaman. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Gambling and Uranium Mining.

Cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted, and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lockion's national animal is the Squig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is the Order of Ollamander, and its currency is the Crown.

Lockion is ranked 1,909th in Balder and 92,601st in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -139 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and