Location: California

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Environmentalists of Monterey Bay Aquarium is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Julie Packard with a fair hand, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 7.14 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Great Tide Pool. 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.

Religious education is a new government priority, racial and religious segregation has become rife as the various groups are loath to mingle, inheritance tax has recently been abolished, and there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Monterey Bay Aquarium's national animal is the sea otter, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Animism, and its currency is the kelp.

Monterey Bay Aquarium is ranked 1st in California and 402nd in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 47 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and