Location: Europeia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Hungover Nightshift Manager of King HEM is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by HEM Tiberius with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 11.347 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 devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Legionaires. The average income tax rate is 96%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. King HEM's national animal is the fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the euro.

King HEM is ranked 887th in Europeia and 76,839th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and