Nation/Rosemeadow

The Ethereal Empire of Rosemeadow is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Thanos Anubia with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 2.217 billion Macarians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Erebus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Macarian economy, worth 325 trillion Charon's Obols a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 146,647 Charon's Obols, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, it is rumoured that Thanos Anubia uses a magic 8-ball to make policy decisions, unemployed political consultants and advertisers spend every election night weeping for the good old days, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rosemeadow's national animal is the New Caledonian Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Melinoe Mortis.