Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Heartland of Huggable is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Empress Mina with an even hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate population of 5.905 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Religion & Spirituality, although the Environment and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wisdom Sharing. The average income tax rate is 77%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits, Huggable's educational system is the envy of many and regarded as a pinnacle of academic achievement, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, and suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Huggable's national animal is the puppy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Buddhism, and its currency is the hug.

Huggable is ranked 515th in Osiris and 14,125th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 20 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and