Location: Mei Li De Dao Qun

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Colony of MLDDQ Recruiter is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 518 million are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with areas such as Social Welfare and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. The average income tax rate is 47%, but much higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Basket Weaving.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. MLDDQ Recruiter's national animal is the Dragon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Yuan.

MLDDQ Recruiter is ranked 2nd in Mei Li De Dao Qun and 30,265th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -10 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and