Location: League of Dictatorships

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Margraviate of Hypneria is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by His Serene Highness the Margrave with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.049 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Defence, although Law & Order and Religion & Spirituality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hypnerotomachia. The average income tax rate is 98%. A healthy private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, and military service is compulsory. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hypneria's national animal is the cemetennus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Margraviatism, and its currency is the hypno.

Hypneria is ranked 3rd in League of Dictatorships and 3,850th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 6 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and