Location: Equilism

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Unexpectedly Kinky Empire of Hamajahala is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by its leader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.432 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy 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 Education, the Environment, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hamajahala City. The average income tax rate is 81%, 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.

Hamajahala's soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region, CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, and heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate. Hamajahala's national animal is the hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the besoin.

Hamajahala is ranked 94th in Equilism and 100,954th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and