Location: Asia Pacific Economic Group

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Empire of Mengjiang is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Genghis Khan of Mengjiang with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.146 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Law & Order, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mengjiang City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 94%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology.

Cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel, rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, and society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mengjiang's national animal is the Great White Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Tibetan Buddhism, and its currency is the Mengjiang Dollar.

Mengjiang is ranked 1st in Asia Pacific Economic Group and 947th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 11 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and