Location: United Kingdom of Britain

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Helertia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 9.651 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 Social Welfare, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Babelyia. The average income tax rate is 97%. 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.

Graffiti graces every city's streets, politicians are to be found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, and national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Helertia's national animal is the Bluejay, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Carpatia.

Helertia is ranked 2nd in United Kingdom of Britain and 31,417th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 23 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and