Location: Utopia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Merrymont is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Edgar with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.143 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, 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 Maypole Hill. The average income tax rate is 83%. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, all prisons have been eliminated, the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, and many newspapers agree that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive". Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Merrymont's national animal is the Lark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the maypole.

Merrymont is ranked 7th in Utopia and 84,925th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and