Location: Maredoratica

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The 6 Time Double Champions of Vitaphone Racing is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Mike Hunt with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.938 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Medion. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales industries.

The automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, education and welfare spending are on the rise, the psych wards are overflowing with transsexuals, and people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vitaphone Racing's national animal is the maserati, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Forza Automotive, and its currency is the MC12.

Vitaphone Racing is ranked 12th in Maredoratica and 11,769th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -7 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and