Location: Alcatraz

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Market Network of Maniaca is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Andre Romell Young CEO with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 22.377 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 is effectively ruled by the Department of Defence, with areas such as Social Welfare and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Book Publishing.

Mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation, armored velociraptor owners exercise their pets at a snail's pace or risk a court appearance, visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories, and teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Maniaca's national animal is the armored velociraptor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Catholicism, and its currency is the Monterey Jack.

Maniaca is ranked 3rd in Alcatraz and 7,138th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 49 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and