Location: The Skaian Initiative

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Friendly Monsters is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Maximillion Monsters with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.209 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moon star city. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

The 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Friendly Monsters's national animal is the bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Scarism, and its currency is the scares.

Friendly Monsters is ranked 28th in The Skaian Initiative and 80,542nd in the world for Most Politically Free, scoring 12 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and