Location: The Heartland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of Miraclian Antilles is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Queen Bee with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.734 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nassau. The average income tax rate is 83%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, teenage fathers are forced to join the army, military spending recently hit a new high, and children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Crime is totally unknown. Miraclian Antilles's national animal is the hummingbird, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Pastafarianism, and its currency is the Crown.

Miraclian Antilles is ranked 49th in The Heartland and 89,229th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -21 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

Preview

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and