Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Rubykatz is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Venerable Ruby Whiskerz with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.46 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 juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rubykatz City. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

There have been reports of people marrying housepets, all weapon research has been banned, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Rubykatz City Times is sold out, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime is totally unknown. Rubykatz's national animal is the Fearsome Domestic Housecat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Claw.

Rubykatz is ranked 2,372nd in Balder and 91,688th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and