Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Talking Region of Wild Mustanges is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Samantha White with an even hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 11.077 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Social Welfare, although Education and Law & Order are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hanoville. The average income tax rate is 92%, 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.

Meat-eating is frowned upon, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", and the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wild Mustanges's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Liver Pool.

Wild Mustanges is ranked 136th in Canada and 96,848th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -29 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and