Location: The Milky Way Galaxy

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Terran Empire of North Mack is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Emperor Henry Guntard with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 13.502 billion are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Trinakai. The average income tax rate is 69%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Information Technology.

Calling out of the blue has become taboo, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in North Mack to be bombproof, marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams, and a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Mack's national animal is the Red-tailed Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the M-Cred.

North Mack is ranked 30th in The Milky Way Galaxy and 25,136th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 15 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and