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The Principality of Melisma
"A nation is its people's favour"
UN Category: Democratic Socialists
Civil Rights: Average
Economy: Developing
Political Freedoms: Very Good
The Principality of Melisma is a enormous, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 992 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Education are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 60%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, followed by Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery.
Punitive tariffs protect local industry, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Melisma's national animal is the Fear and its currency is the Snarine.
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-Mushroom.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw
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