Location: Social Liberal Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Holy Empire of Ma Raque is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Travis Ritchie with an even hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.88 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mecca. The average income tax rate is 96%. A robust private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

The space program has been scrapped in order to focus on more terrestrial pursuits, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, and long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ma Raque's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the shalam.

Ma Raque is ranked 56th in Social Liberal Union and 5,040th in the world for Longest Average Lifespans, scoring 33 on the Enoch Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and