Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Ambient Technocracy of Mathematania is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Calculo Calculi with a fair hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.953 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Social Welfare, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mathematania City. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, the government is avowedly atheist, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, and the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mathematania's national animal is the rainbow horned toad, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the cpu.

Mathematania is ranked 4,179th in the West Pacific and 100,692nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -49 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and