Location: Uroca

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Annoying Humming Sound of Mittsville is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 14.577 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

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 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 3rd in Uroca and 6,908th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 21 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and