Location: HiberNationStates

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The HiberNationStates Spokesman of Nighton is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Corvid with an even hand, and remarkable for its enforced nudity. Its compassionate population of 10.066 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 Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Nighton Sky. The average income tax rate is 76%, 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 nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds, only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote, and the police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls. Crime is well under control, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nighton's national animal is the raven, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Shiny Things.

Nighton is ranked 5th in HiberNationStates and 30,288th in the world for Most Influential, scoring 18 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and