Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Hamstery is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.739 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 Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Davetown. 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.

The government is avowedly atheist, euthanasia is legal, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and the government funds large training centres to turn Hamsters into functioning members of society. Crime is totally unknown. Hamstery's national animal is the Hamster, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Seed.

Hamstery is ranked 452nd in Europe and 96,589th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and