Location: pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Principality of Super Hans is a massive, pleasant nation, ruled by Super Hans with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strong anti-business politics. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.349 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The enormous government devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Woodchip Exports.

Re-education centers are being added to most prisons, military spending recently hit a new high, the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, and Super Hans has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime is crippling. Super Hans's national animal is the drugs, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the drugs.

Super Hans is ranked 7th in pacific and 14,732nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -8 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and