Location: USSR

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Liberal Socialist Democracy of Mikhailgrad is a massive, devout nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.694 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Welfare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novaya Moskva. The average income tax rate is 66%, and even higher for the wealthy. A large private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Artists are pillars of society, genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape, the government spends millions of Vladimir's Rubles every year prosecuting spammers, and the fire protection service is wholly government-funded. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mikhailgrad's national animal is the Bicephalous Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Atheism and Agnosticism, and its currency is the Vladimir's Ruble.

Mikhailgrad is ranked 109th in USSR and 88,654th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and