Location: Pyoko

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Incorporated States of Hyperbia is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Eibon with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 18.194 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tast. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology industries.

Children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest, a recent law has banned homes from having any more than one wheel, and the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hyperbia's national animal is the Shoggoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the tulu metal.

Hyperbia is ranked 1st in Pyoko and 75th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 26 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and