Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Fiefdom of McRabidia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lord Frothington III with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate population of 1.03 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Raton Laveur. The average income tax rate is 76%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

All-natural foods are becoming a major fad, meat-eating is frowned upon, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. McRabidia's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Rabuck.

McRabidia is ranked 4,255th in The North Pacific and 91,725th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and