Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Felidae of Meowmikx is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mr Bigglesworth with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.195 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Catropolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, and citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Meowmikx's national animal is the Cats, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Chicklet.

Meowmikx is ranked 130th in the West Pacific and 5,745th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and