Location: Balder

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Roaring Kayl-Ryckan Majestum of The Narnian Council is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Kayl Ryck with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, cynical population of 9.649 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cair Paravel. The average income tax rate is 74%. 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.

Loans are available for students from poor families, children are regularly married to each other to secure business deals between families, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, and only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Narnian Council's national animal is the roaring majesty, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the florin.

The Narnian Council is ranked 1,458th in Balder and 66,679th in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 29 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and