Location: Yorkshire

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Determined democracy of The Mejobsworth is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 12.913 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is effectively ruled by the Department of Social Welfare, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 43%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Cheese Exports.

Elections have been outlawed. Crime is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. The Mejobsworth's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the pound.

The Mejobsworth is ranked 16th in Yorkshire and 73,566th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -15 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and