Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Constitutional Monarchy of Cartagonia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by the High King Jose Alfonso I with a fair hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.812 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plaza del Lago. The average income tax rate is 29%, but much higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cartagonia's national animal is the Testudo graeca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the duro cantonal.

Cartagonia is ranked 507th in Europeia and 34,435th in the world for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9 on the Gilded Widget Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and