Location: New Jersey

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mustard Sammich of Mustard Sammich is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-working, cynical population of 3.541 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defence. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing.

Immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day, the insurance industry is outlawed, those found guilty of illicit affairs are jailed, and people have to sneak out of the country in order to have sex. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mustard Sammich's national animal is the canary, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the seed.

Mustard Sammich is ranked 2nd in New Jersey and 23,684th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and