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Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Embelishment of The Hype is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by MrHype with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 9.252 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Social Equality receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of HypeCity. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing industries.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Hype's national animal is the elephant, its national religion is Atheism, and its currency is the exaggeration.

The Hype is ranked 46th in 0000000000 and 10,871st in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and