Location: Carioch

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Joyful Monday Mornings is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.948 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Law & Order receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 26%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Voting is voluntary and military spending is on the increase. Crime is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Joyful Monday Mornings's national animal is the not so lazy dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the nickel.

Joyful Monday Mornings is ranked 1st in Carioch and 20,035th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and