Location: Xaymaca

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Maritime Empire of Antemyst is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Crystalline Fosterman with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.301 billion 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals juggles the competing demands of Defence, Healthcare, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qumenee. Income tax is unheard of. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, the new hit series "Antemyst's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, people are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Antemyst's national animal is the anoli lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the cohoba.

Antemyst is ranked 11th in Xaymaca and 97,933rd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring -5 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and