Location: the Rejected Realms

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Hampered movement is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its restrictive gun laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 688 million are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The minute, moralistic government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Social Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10%. A substantial private sector is led by the Gambling industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Woodchip Exports.

The government is reining in public spending, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, voting is voluntary, and young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables. Crime is relatively low, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Hampered movement's national animal is the asdf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the twitch.

Hampered movement is ranked 417th in the Rejected Realms and 34,068th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and