Location: The Alliance of Dictators

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Mighty Dictatorship of The Mighty Hyena is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Mightiest Hyena with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.195 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hilariousness. The average income tax rate is 97%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Uranium Mining and Arms Manufacturing.

Drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Mighty Hyena's national animal is the hyena, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Cult of the Mightiest Hyena, and its currency is the laughin.

The Mighty Hyena is ranked 18th in The Alliance of Dictators and 6,501st in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 11 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and