Location: Lazarus

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Equal Opportunity Nation of Moftan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 12.714 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 the Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moftan City. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, and corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moftan's national animal is the emu, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the mofian.

Moftan is ranked 3,679th in Lazarus and 101,649th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -23 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and