Location: Tetrakon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Incorporated States of Blackhelm Confederacy is a gargantuan, devout nation, ruled by Lucius Blackhelm with an iron fist, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.396 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paradise City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

The nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Blackhelm Confederacy's national animal is the dragon, its national religion is Roman Catholic, and its currency is the Confederate Credit.

Blackhelm Confederacy is ranked 25th in Tetrakon and 84,013th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -35 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and