Location: Cherowaka

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rouge Nation of Poisoned Hope is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 917 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Religion & Spirituality are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poisoned Hope City. The average income tax rate is 51%. A healthy private sector is led by the Basket Weaving industry, followed by Tourism and Arms Manufacturing.

All writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy, pollsters are out of a job as elections have been cancelled, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Poisoned Hope's national animal is the Moonlight Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Waro.

Poisoned Hope is ranked 17th in Cherowaka and 72,779th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -15 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and