Location: Pony Lands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Greater Pony Herd of Urmanian is a colossal, devout nation, ruled by Twilight Sparkle with an iron fist, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, cynical population of 7.029 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flankfurt am Mane. The average income tax rate is 81%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Phoenix is one of the most popular forenames in Urmanian, citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked, the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, and terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and machine gun nests. Crime is totally unknown. Urmanian's national animal is the phoenix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Ponyism, and its currency is the bit.

Urmanian is ranked 5th in Pony Lands and 3,629th in the world for Best Weather, with 101 Metres of Sunlight Above Expected.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and