Location: Ionia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Luis Manny is a colossal, economically powerful nation, renowned for its complete lack of public education. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 9.634 billion enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

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, Healthcare, and Social Equality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1%. A large private sector is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, followed by Book Publishing and Cheese Exports.

Luis Manny's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, and the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars. Crime is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Luis Manny's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the dollar.

Luis Manny is ranked 151st in Ionia and 10,579th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 31 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and