Location: Q102

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Randveres semiautonomyc city of Mannapudru is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 16.05 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. The average income tax rate is 95%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mannapudru's national animal is the Jet-powered Hover-mous, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the IPER-s gold bar.

Mannapudru is ranked 10th in Q102 and 123,374th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 5 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and