Location: Capitalist Paradise

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Three Holy Kingdoms of New Mesopelagia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Great Lawgiver with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.663 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.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Illida. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Gambling.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, people are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, and national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. New Mesopelagia's national animal is the Vesperian, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is The Church of New Mesopelagia, and its currency is the Meso Dollar.

New Mesopelagia is ranked 4th in Capitalist Paradise and 131st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and