Location: Anime

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of -Hinamizawa- is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Rika-chama with an iron fist, and renowned for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.048 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, the Environment, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hinamizawa. The average income tax rate is 92%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation, the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives, citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, and women who display their ankles are shunned by society. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Hinamizawa-'s national animal is the Satoko, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is worship of the mighty Oyashiro-sama, and its currency is the Offal.

-Hinamizawa- is ranked 28th in Anime and 21,437th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 7 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

NationStates by Max Barry, author of and