Location: Greater Dienstad

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Unified Federation of Mokastana is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by President of the Federation Benito Vera with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 10.709 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mokastana City. The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Tourism industries.

The government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mokastana's national animal is the Jaguar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Gold Labor.

Mokastana is ranked 29th in Greater Dienstad and 8,619th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and