Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Delegate Empire of Hileville is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Dennrick Hileville with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.126 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nantopia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, followed by Automobile Manufacturing and Woodchip Exports.

There are no minimum wage laws, society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy, the new hit series "Hileville's Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country, and the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hileville's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Lutheran, and its currency is the Hile.

Hileville is ranked 1,520th in the South Pacific and 35,703rd 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