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Highest Drug Use: 6,408thHighest Crime Rates: 6,731stLowest Overall Tax Burden: 10,429th
The Reinforcement of
Benevolent Dictatorship
If you want peace, prepare for war.
Influence
Apprentice
Region
Civil Rights
Frightening
Economy
Strong
Political Freedom
Few

Overview Policies People Government Economy Rank Trend Cards

Healers

Population4.851 billion

Currencygolden thread
Animalblack griffin

The Reinforcement of Healers is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 4.851 billion Healersians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.7%.

The strong Healersian economy, worth 249 trillion golden threads a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 51,388 golden threads, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 331,201 per year while the poor average 3,221, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Healers's national animal is the black griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Healers is ranked 268,299th in the world and 7th in Covenant for Safest, scoring 8.45 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.

Top
5%
Highest Drug Use: 6,408thHighest Crime Rates: 6,731stLowest Overall Tax Burden: 10,429thMost Pro-Market: 14,140thMost Extensive Civil Rights: 14,144thTop
10%
Largest Gambling Industry: 14,498thGreatest Rich-Poor Divides: 16,151stHighest Unexpected Death Rate: 21,152ndMost Armed: 21,195thHighest Wealthy Incomes: 22,849th

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Crime Rates and the Top 10% for Highest Wealthy Incomes.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Pro-Market.
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Extensive Civil Rights.
  • : Healers's influence in Covenant rose from "Squire" to "Apprentice".
  • : Healers was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Extensive Civil Rights and Most Pro-Market.

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