Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Democratic Republic of Hudsuckers is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Slim Dogg with a fair hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.277 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and Healthcare are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hudsuckers City. The average income tax rate is 79%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", a National Academy regulates grammar and usage, Max Barry is this year's Miss Hudsuckers, and a government program is underway to revitalize Hudsuckers's beaches. Crime is totally unknown. Hudsuckers's national animal is the Seahorse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Squishy.

Hudsuckers is ranked 1,987th in The East Pacific and 46,996th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and