Location: Cymru

Overview • Factbook • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of The Commune of Meddle is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Comrade with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.406 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. The average income tax rate is 94%, 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.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, and newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown. The Commune of Meddle's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Wold.

The Commune of Meddle is ranked 5th in Cymru and 128,033rd in the world for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -8 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and