Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Free State of Hamstownsten is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Tony Hamblock with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.336 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be 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, Healthcare, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hamingsgrad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, followed by Information Technology and Uranium Mining.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations, euthanasia is legal, and retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites. Crime is totally unknown. Hamstownsten's national animal is the Chicken, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the Ham.

Hamstownsten is ranked 1,478th in Europeia and 69,675th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -9 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and