Location: Tending Hands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Floating Island of Hyperbolic Orbit is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 7.396 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Religion & Spirituality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Menaion. The average income tax rate is 90%, 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.

The institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced, politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter', students cut up leftover Hugs during Arts and Crafts, and fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hyperbolic Orbit's national animal is the orbital cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Hug.

Hyperbolic Orbit is ranked 2nd in Tending Hands and 92,441st in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and