Location: St Abbaddon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free Land of Metisonia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 765 million are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gnosis. The average income tax rate is 65%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Information Technology.

Citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, and re-education centers are being added to most prisons. Crime is well under control. Metisonia's national animal is the Owl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Fayette.

Metisonia is ranked 14th in St Abbaddon and 23,735th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and