Location: Uroca

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Floating Ark-Kiefdom of West Hill Beach Club is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 8.712 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and Healthcare receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59%. A very small private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, the mob and the police have recently had numerous clashes in the back alleys of West Hill Beach Club's cities due to the government's steadfast anti-casino stance, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, and the military has had to quell a recent insurrection by uninsured revolutionaries. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. West Hill Beach Club's national animal is the minnow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sand dollar.

West Hill Beach Club is ranked 3rd in Uroca and 12,243rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -7 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and