Location: Monkey Island

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Doctoral Monkey Feet of Mousebumples is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by sisters Lizzy and Sasha Hall with an iron fist, and notable for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.157 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Defence receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moustantinople. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Lending firms are subject to strict government regulations, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, billions of flying monkeys are being blown on orbital weapons development, and the fire protection service is wholly government-funded. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mousebumples's national animal is the long-haired treemouse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the flying monkey.

Mousebumples is ranked 27th in Monkey Island and 100,511th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -46 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and