Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Completely Free Land of Mauritzstaadt is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.488 billion 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mauritania. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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.

Commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies, voting is voluntary, the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', and Crab is one of the most popular forenames in Mauritzstaadt. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mauritzstaadt's national animal is the crab, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the mascate.

Mauritzstaadt is ranked 2,054th in 10000 Islands and 99,638th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and