New Minneapolis, Canada

New Minneapolis, Canada is a city in Canada. It was previously known as Minneapolis.

A successful plebiscite resulted in the peaceful secession of Minneapolis from the United States, simultaneous with the founding of the Canadian province of New Minneapolis.

New Minneapolis is Canada's only exclave province, and the only Canadian province which consists entirely of a single city.

The Nested Radical

The Nested Radical is a popular coffeehouse.

The graphic novel Whatever Happened to the Nested Radical? is set entirely in The Nested Radical.

It includes references to, and illustrations of, various places, people, and events in and around New Minneapolis.

Egg Tooth neighborhood

The famous Egg Tooth neighborhood is popular with thrill seekers and the characters they attract.

The neighborhood is named after the monster Egg Tooth, who once visited during a Wild Rumpus.

In an interview with Forbes magazine, long-time resident Karl Jones said:

During his visit, Egg Tooth was struck by rumbustious lightning -- the event which allowed him to permanently escape from Where The Wild Things Are.
Things were a bit awkward, after the old Minneapolis voted to become a province of Canada.
Sorting out the new tax base situation between a nonfiction city, a nonfiction foreign nation, and a fictional city joining the nonfictional foreign nation was particularly challenging.
But most people adjusted easily enough, and pretty soon business got back to normal.

Banishment

Axiom Antics - banned from New Minneapolis in solidarity with survivors of the Pi disaster.

In the News

August 18, 2019: "It’s because of your taste buds that the Yorkshire Tea hurt Daddy’s brain" is voted Joke of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
March 3, 1987: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, mathematician Hing Tong visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
December 13, 1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets broadcasts an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis; his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
October 29, 1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and Gnomon algorithm philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
Mud pot in northern California runs dry, may relocate to Devil's Mud Pie area.
Minnesota to review state maps, add missing geological eras.
The Nested Radical seeking permission to display Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting The Carpet Merchant in upcoming art show.
Heracles parched, visits Bad Job Brewery.
Documentary photographer Jack Boucher at the first anniversary of Liberation Day in New Minneapolis, Canada.