Location: Nederland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Weyland Corporation of Heinekenbier is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Dear Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.179 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heinekenbier City. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

Military service is compulsory, senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Heinekenbier's national animal is the oxygen molecule, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Dear Leaders' Cult, and its currency is the bottle cap.

Heinekenbier is ranked 102nd in Nederland and 95,184th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -887 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and