Location: Gamania

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Most Serene Republic of Molybdenum is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 504 million 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Public Transport receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ununtium. The average income tax rate is 66%. A large private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Automobile Manufacturing and Furniture Restoration.

The government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory minature radios, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, and Molybdenum's famous countrysides are shrouded by wind farms. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Molybdenum's national animal is the jellyfish, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Photon.

Molybdenum is ranked 6th in Gamania and 20,081st in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and