Location: Nederland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Weyland Corporation of Heinekenbier is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Dear Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.79 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.

Spies caught in Heinekenbier are never heard from again, government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet, criminals are executed and their property seized, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. 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 116th in Nederland and 101,230th in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring -36 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and