Location: Michigan

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Metal People is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.389 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on the Environment, although Law & Order and Defence are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Metal People City. The average income tax rate is 16%, but much higher for the wealthy. 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.

Many working fathers have never seen their children, politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and the military has quashed a recent coup attempt. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Metal People's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the piece of metal.

Metal People is ranked 1st in Michigan and 17,832nd in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 7 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and