Non Plasset Essa Iuxta Mare (Inutilia, Cancioni-Inutilia)

Non Plasset Essa Iuxta Mare is the southernmost and smallest province in the State of Inutilia, Cancioni-Inutilia, and is the state's only island province. It has a mere token population of 8,000 residents. One-quarter of them live in rural conditions, essentially are still subsistence farmers, and are in general denial of government, taxes, national obligations and other related items. This gives the state the third-highest national ratio of rural to urban citizens after Nonostros Odiamos las Montanas and Isla de la Danza del Cangrejo.

The province became part of Cancioni-Inutilia in 276 BC, when the Inutilians were still in the early days of their new-found equal rights and wanted to show off to the Cancionans by one-upping their provincial count. They 'discovered' a small island to the east of Isla de la Danza del Cangrejo, ignored the small group of subsistence farmers already living there, erected a colonial town they christened New Ptracopolis, and declared it a new province. The locals weren't impressed, and to this day the stubborn rural population is in denial of being citizens of Cancioni-Inutilia, along with the denial of taxes.

Ninety per cent of the adult population work in the fishing industry. It is the only province in which provincial government is almost useless, and local government has taken over. (See 'government'.) Said local government is in the form of the extended D'Oevre family, which constitutes about a third of the population, and is ruled with an iron fist by Granny Susan, a tyrannical matriarch who lives in New Ptracopolis and dominates more effectively than either of the federal dictators.

Although a decent number of tourists visit the island every year, most of the locals find it quite bleak and depressing. Despite its low-latitude location the weather is almost always overcast and chilly. Its main reason for existing was swiping a prime fishing outpost before neighbouring countries could get to it, but those who live there maintain that it wasn't worth it.

Has the highest percentage of residents living below the poverty line, because a) the minute population means that a high percentage is easier to obtain than anywhere else, and b) most of the people still living there do so because they couldn't afford to move to a different province.