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The Commonwealth of Coffee Drinker

“I can't run a country, why was I even elected?” Chancellor Carl Kemppainen

Category: Father Knows Best State
Civil Rights:
Some
Economy:
Very Strong
Political Freedoms:
Few

Regional Influence: Shoeshiner

Location: The North Pacific

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Coffee Drinker

Population3.953 billion

CapitalCoffee City
LeaderChancellor Carl Kemppainen

CurrencyCoffee Bean
Animalmonkey

The Commonwealth of Coffee Drinker is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chancellor Carl Kemppainen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.953 billion Coffee Drinker 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.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coffee City. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Coffee Drinkerian economy, worth 293 trillion Coffee Beans a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,248 Coffee Beans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Eating kids as food has been enshrined in law, victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, and breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coffee Drinker's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coffee Drinker is ranked 224,311th in the world and 4,233rd in The North Pacific for Most Stationary, with 27.3336283398 days.

Top
1%
Most Influential: 2,940thTop
5%
Most Secular: 8,686thSafest: 12,826thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 14,587thTop
10%
Longest Average Lifespans: 19,025thBest Weather: 19,127thMost Popular Tourist Destinations: 20,276thHealthiest Citizens: 21,253rdLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 21,791stMost Beautiful Environments: 23,573rdMost Pacifist: 23,802nd
Top
5%
Most Secular: 291st in the regionTop
10%
Safest: 595th in the regionLargest Basket Weaving Sector: 609th in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 638th in the regionMost Influential: 666th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Coffee Drinker was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments.
  • : Coffee Drinker's influence in The North Pacific rose from "Zero" to "Shoeshiner".
  • : Following new legislation in Coffee Drinker, breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace.
  • : Following new legislation in Coffee Drinker, people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled.
  • : Following new legislation in Coffee Drinker, victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians.
  • : Following new legislation in Coffee Drinker, eating kids as food has been enshrined in law.
  • : Following new legislation in Coffee Drinker, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers.
  • : Coffee Drinker was reclassified from "Iron Fist Consumerists" to "Father Knows Best State".
  • : Coffee Drinker relocated from Osiris to The North Pacific.
  • : Coffee Drinker altered its national flag.

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