Location: Balder

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The Community of Happy Friends Land is a massive, devout nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.564 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Commerce, and Defence. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11%. A substantial private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Gambling and Automobile Manufacturing.

Organ donation is compulsory, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, all recreational drugs are legal, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime is a problem. Happy Friends Land's national animal is the People, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Starr.

Happy Friends Land is ranked 2,590th in Balder and 121,193rd in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -19 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and