Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Meliorannis is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Melior Honorius with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, intelligent population of 829 million 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 concentrates mainly on Defence, although Education and Healthcare are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Meliorannis City. The average income tax rate is 43%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Meliorannis, and hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in Meliorannis's many privately-owned prisons. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meliorannis's national animal is the Hexapuma, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Credit.

Meliorannis is ranked 3,309th in the West Pacific and 73,548th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and