Location: Kittens Sanctuary

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Bad Idea in Retrospect of Ennui On The Mountain is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Manager with a fair hand, and notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.847 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals juggles the competing demands of Commerce, the Environment, and Public Transport. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yawn City. Income tax is unheard of. 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.

Eight year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, large sections of Ennui On The Mountain have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and the new hit series "Ennui On The Mountain's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Ennui On The Mountain's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the meh.

Ennui On The Mountain is ranked 7th in Kittens Sanctuary and 119,626th in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -4 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and