Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Constitutional Monarchy of Heliopsis Helianthoides is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 831 million 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 is mainly concerned with Education, although Healthcare and Social Equality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Helianthus Annuus. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. A small but healthy private sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry.

Shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees. Crime is well under control. Heliopsis Helianthoides's national animal is the Scootaloo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Lunar Sterling.

Heliopsis Helianthoides is ranked 3,911th in The North Pacific and 82,481st in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and