The United Socialist States of Mennis is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, devout population of 357 million Mennisians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.
The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 55.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The powerhouse Mennisian economy, worth 27.2 trillion guilders a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,157 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.
Drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, and elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mennis's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Mennis is ranked 19,003rd in the world and 168th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 23.31 average smiles per day.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
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Mennis, elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens.
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Mennis, warfare increasingly resembles a video game.
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Mennis, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes.
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Mennis, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps".
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Mennis was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Advanced Public Transport.
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Mennis, crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track.
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Mennis, in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare.
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Mennis, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise.
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Mennis, the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers.
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Mennis, childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense.