Location: Nederland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Weyland Corporation of Heinekenbier is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Dear Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its superstitious fear of technology. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.801 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as the Environment and Social Welfare receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heinekenbier City. The average income tax rate is 100%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Uranium Mining industry.

The state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association, the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, and conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Heinekenbier's national animal is the oxygen molecule, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Dear Leaders' Cult, and its currency is the bottle cap.

Heinekenbier is ranked 1st in Nederland and 25th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 33 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and