Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rogue Nation of The Mad Hatter is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 994 million love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Mad Hatter City. The average income tax rate is 85%, 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.

High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, Mr Happy's Funland has just been named The Mad Hatter's new capital, the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest White rabbit hunting institutions, and the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms. Crime is totally unknown. The Mad Hatter's national animal is the White rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Insanity.

The Mad Hatter is ranked 1,194th in the Rejected Realms and 94,085th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -25 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and