Location: 10000 Islands

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The City State of New Kourt is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.46 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Public Transport receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Old Kourt. The average income tax rate is 61%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, the death penalty has been reintroduced, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys. Crime is relatively low. New Kourt's national animal is the bird of paradise, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Gem Stone.

New Kourt is ranked 2,246th in 10000 Islands and 119,485th in the world for Stupidest Citizens, scoring 6 on the Average Edu-UNtellignce® Test Score.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and