Location: the West Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Hannorat is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Ricky Gandhi with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.284 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 concentrates mainly on Education, although Commerce and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Libertas . The average income tax rate is 68%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Tourism industry, followed by Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, voting is voluntary, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hannorat's national animal is the Hawk , which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dollar.

Hannorat is ranked 240th in the West Pacific and 9,596th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and