Location: Taijitu

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Benevolent Dictatorship of Miltovia is a colossal, devout nation, ruled by Milton I with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.362 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Milton. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The government strictly regulates whale harvest quotas, children as young as eight can be found working in factories, an enormous health awareness programme is underway, and airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Miltovia's national animal is the wombat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the milt.

Miltovia is ranked 3rd in Taijitu and 1,037th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring 39 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and