Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Achilles Heal is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.579 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Troy. The average income tax rate is 80%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Gambling and Book Publishing.

Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, and the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism. Crime is totally unknown. Achilles Heal's national animal is the Vulture, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Achilles.

Achilles Heal is ranked 3,661st in the West Pacific and 82,737th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and