Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Peaceful Lands of Hannah Kling is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Thor with a fair hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.553 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, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kush City. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

Organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, Hannah Kling's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours. Crime is totally unknown. Hannah Kling's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the green.

Hannah Kling is ranked 198th in Wysteria and 100,577th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and