Location: Canada

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Kingdom of Devil Heart is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Matilda Love with a fair hand, and notable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.683 billion are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Equality, Social Welfare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tazz. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, and major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day. Crime is totally unknown. Devil Heart's national animal is the Tasmanian Devil, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the devil.

Devil Heart is ranked 127th in Canada and 91,292nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and