Population | 46.084 billion |
Capital | District City |
Leader | Liard |
Currency | aurum |
Animal | bovina |
The District of Manitoulin is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Liard with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 46.084 billion Manitoulinis love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Manitoulinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,419 trillion aurums a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 52,506 aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named", Liard can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Manitoulin flights to avoid the pay lavatories, and Liard is convinced that other nations can simply be "junked" (Manitoulin has found 3 easter eggs). Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Manitoulin's national animal is the bovina, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Manitoulin is ranked 299,428th in the world and 698th in Ancient Lands for Most Cultured, scoring 43 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Manitoulin agreed to construct embassies between Ancient Lands and Nelumbo.
- : Manitoulin agreed to construct embassies between Ancient Lands and The Global Elite.
- : Manitoulin was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Smartest Citizens.
- : Manitoulin proposed constructing embassies between Ancient Lands and Soviet Spawn.
- : Manitoulin lodged a message on the Ancient Lands Regional Message Board.
- : Manitoulin agreed to construct embassies between Ancient Lands and Embassies of NationStates.
- : Manitoulin agreed to construct embassies between Ancient Lands and The Reapers Coffee Shop.
- : Manitoulin was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Unexpected Death Rate.
- : Manitoulin agreed to construct embassies between Ancient Lands and The Union of Realms.
- : Manitoulin agreed to construct embassies between Ancient Lands and Modorra.