Location: The Gulf Coast

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Monarchie Constitutionnelle of Maurepas is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by King Louis I and XX with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.098 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Biloxi. The average income tax rate is 58%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Tourism and Gambling.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Biloxi Times is sold out. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a major problem. Maurepas's national animal is the Red Swamp Crawfish, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Roman Catholicism , and its currency is the Livre.

Maurepas is ranked 2nd in The Gulf Coast and 1,849th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 40 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.

Preview

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and