The main character is a man who is capable of antisocial behavior and who considers himself “the king of the world.” He is allowed to do what he wishes, take what he wants and go where he pleases without reprisal, so long as he does no violence to another human being.
The story ends with a desperate plea from the protagonist for someone, anyone to join him in his rebellion against what he perceives to be a wholly passive society, which has lost any spark of creativity or will to achieve greatness.
The protagonist "invents" drawing and sculpture, only later realizing, from old books, that these things had existed in the past, and notes that all great artists had lived in especially violent times.
[2] James Nicoll calls it "a fairly representative example of the alienated man", but commends the story for avoiding "Fans Are Slans"-style elitism.
In 2001, John Derbyshire wrote a column for the National Review, in which he analyzed the concept of normality within the context of demographic shift, and cited "Country of the Kind" as an example of the value of abnormality (while misrepresenting the protagonist as having been officially licensed to break into homes and vandalize their contents).