Location: belgium

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Kingdom of Humanity is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Riem with a fair hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.259 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of HumaniCity. The average income tax rate is 61%, 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.

Meat-eating is frowned upon, the children of Humanity are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Humanity's national animal is the under, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the raal.

Humanity is ranked 91st in belgium and 95,650th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and