Location: St Abbaddon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Meadows of Mystic Cattle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its strong anti-business politics. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.238 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, the Environment, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Butterswell. The average income tax rate is 67%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

The upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned, councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters, senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, and mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights. Crime is a problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Mystic Cattle's national animal is the Mystic Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is a major religion, and its currency is the Pint.

Mystic Cattle is ranked 28th in St Abbaddon and 94,423rd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and