Location: Texas

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of Mimes Guild is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed population of 18.366 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

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, Defence, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 98%. 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.

A National Academy regulates grammar and usage, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, Mimes Guild is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mimes Guild's national animal is the opossum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Octopus card.

Mimes Guild is ranked 6th in Texas and 1,019th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 11 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and