Location: Mississippi

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Confederacy of Simmimmippi is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Reginald St Cloud with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.651 billion are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The large, moralistic, pro-business government is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Religion & Spirituality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pippipopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22%. A robust private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Arms Manufacturing.

All government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Pippipopolis, Reginald St Cloud has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters, and Southern Baptist has been named as Simmimmippi's national religion. Crime is a serious problem. Simmimmippi's national animal is the Bottlenose Dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Southern Baptist, and its currency is the Clam.

Simmimmippi is ranked 3rd in Mississippi and 39,265th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -11 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and