Location: The Moon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Commonwealth of Hyperlogos is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by drink with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.622 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, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hyperlogos City. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, all streets are privately owned toll roads, and wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby. Crime is totally unknown. Hyperlogos's national animal is the Badger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Moon.

Hyperlogos is ranked 219th in The Moon and 98,750th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and