Location: Uroca

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Annoying Humming Sound of Mittsville is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.187 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dranon City. The average income tax rate is 91%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, the children of Mittsville are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, and the nation is completely gun-free. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Mittsville's national animal is the Deadly Marmot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the DOCA.

Mittsville is ranked 12th in Uroca and 98,489th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and