New Megaton

## Coat of Arms

The **Incorporated States of New Megaton**, sometimes referred to as simply **Megaton** or affectionately by its inhabitants as **New Meg**, are an 100% private nation, property of Megaton Corporation International. Built on the desolate irradiated wasteland that was once the third world nations of Aldalon and Ektória, the nation is notable for its near absurd dedication to the free market.

## **Etymology**

The nation is named after its parent company, Megaton Corporation. The name of the company itself is a reference to the unit of measurement used in nuclear explosions, since the company started as an uranium mining operation.

## **Government Policy**

Being ruled by a corporation, the nation's chain of command is also corporative. The nost powerful representative figure, equivalent to a president, is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with the Chief Operational Officer (COO) as second in command, followed by the national Board of Directors and the Board of Management of each of the nation's four states: Wither Valley, Great Sandhaven, Old Ektoria and Elon Bay. Cities are ruled by managers rather than mayors. Government tends to be minarchist, almost non-existent, with emphasis on individual freedom, but little room for welfare. Politicians aren't elected and impeached, but hired and fired according to their productivity rates.

## **Economic Policy**

New Megaton is extremely capitalist, with very few regulations regarding the marketing, even in direct competition with the corporation-state. The nation's greatest exports include uranium, firearms, matrijuana and Nuka Cola-brand soda, and in the services sector prostitution, gambling and really rouchy reality television.

## **Religion**

New Megaton's most popular religion is the Church of the Invisible Hand. Its followers, the Handites, worship the market itself as a divine entity, and see the search for profit as a noble goal and greed as a path to enlighnment. Mormons and Jews are also pretty common, aas well as celebrity cults such as the Church of Scientology.

## **Societal Views**

Megatonian culture is extremely liberal, fociused on inbdividual freedom; a gay throuple giving their adopted child a gun to protect the family's marijuana farm isn't an unusual sight in New Meg.

## **Trivia**

* The city of Motorvale, in the Wither Valley region, is a semi-independent territory ruled by a motorcicle gang, the Paradise Devils. Tourists near teh city often compare it to the movies in the Mad Max franchise.
* One of the nation's native animals is the mutant capybara, a variant of the South American animal that evolved to survive in deserted environments with the help of New Meg's high radioactivity. It's often captured and trained by locals for underground fighting rings.

## Gallery of New Megaton

A map of New Megaton.The national football team's jerseyTypical Megatonian advertisingThe Nuclear Gazette, Megaton's top newspaperThorium City, capital of New Megaton (Art by Mark Orzechowski)CEO Aiden Rand.Charles Chunkerton, Chief Manager of Great Sandhaven.Derek "Deadeye" Hooligan, Chief Manager of Wither Valley.Automatized Market Management Intelligence (AMMI), Chief Manager of Old Ektoria.A map of New Meg's four administrative regions.