Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Look but don't touch of Milk and Honeys is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by Dark Mistress with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working population of 14.649 billion are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Religion & Spirituality and Defence are secondary priorities. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63%. 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.

Terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums, priests are being drafted by the church load, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, and murder victims' families receive windfall payouts when the murderers are executed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Milk and Honeys's national animal is the llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Subtlism, and its currency is the drakma.

Milk and Honeys is ranked 1,072nd in the Rejected Realms and 80,741st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -17 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and