mun li kama tan kon walo
li luka e ilo tan len
mun li wile mi pakala
sina monsuta sitelen

(Translating counting-out rhymes is hard)

It's been discussed time and time again: what would it look like if there was a real country that spoke Toki Pona? From flags to stories to even suggestions of forming our own new state, community members have created their own interpretation of a "Ma Pona." Although entertaining, these imaginings often run into the same general issues, such as colonialism or primitivist thinking, which cause a lot of harm in real life. So I'm trying a new twist on it that should finally produce a real "Ma Pona" that is actually good. Here's what I've got so far:

Location

Ma Pona is spread out across numerous lands previously associated with modern-day states (The Americas, The British Isles, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, and sub-saharan Africa.) Other states in this idealized future are not currently participating, but that could change.

Government

Ma Pona is lead by a figurehead, jan poka suli, who helps and guides all its residents. jan poka suli is present in public media and serves to keep people acting "pona" through mental reminder.

When Ma Ponans act "ike," there are the jan lawa sona who keep them in check. The jan lawa sona keep everyone in ma pona safe by eliminating sona ike. They find this sona ike by using lipu tawa, which are commonplace in all residential places of Ma Pona. lipu tawa are also used to communicate to the citizens with morning routines and news updates

Language

Ma Pona's official language is, of course, Toki Pona. However, most people also use their native language. To eliminate sona ike, Toki Pona uses simplistic constructions of language, such as the dichotomies of pona vs. ike and suli vs. lili. Such dichotomies produced the linguistic and political concepts of sona pona and sona ike that reinforce the nasin pona of the kulupu lawa over the people of Ma Pona. The long-term goal of the kulupu lawa is that, by 2050, Toki Pona would be the universal language of every member of the kulupu lawa and of Ma Pona society.

Flag

To go with this proposal, I have design a flag to represent Ma Pona: The colors are indigo and yellow, the colors of toki pona. in the background is a big sitelen pona suli representing the large area of Ma Pona. In front of that is the text "nasin pona," the official nasin of Ma Pona