The Haku of Haku is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 13.237 billion Hakuese have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.
The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 24.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The Hakuese economy, worth 505 trillion stars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,211 stars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.
A girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants, even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, and teenagers sit around on their butts all day. Crime is well under control. Haku's national animal is the Celestial Sea Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Stellar Spiritualism.
Haku is ranked 154,855th in the world and 202nd in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Most Patriotic, with 8.58 flags saluted per person per day.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in
Haku, teenagers sit around on their butts all day.
- : Following new legislation in Haku, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced.
- : Following new legislation in Haku, even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love.
- : Following new legislation in Haku, a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants.
- : Following new legislation in Haku, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution.
- : Following new legislation in Haku, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election".
- : Following new legislation in Haku, fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in.
- : Haku changed its national currency to "star".
- : Following new legislation in Haku, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets.
- : Following new legislation in Haku, overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers.
