Location: Environment

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Community of WWF Hellas is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, cynical population of 9.7 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Social Welfare, although Education and Healthcare are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 53%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Armed police units patrol the roads late at night, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are sold freely by the government, and the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. WWF Hellas's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the clean air.

WWF Hellas is ranked 4th in Environment and 62,323rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -13 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and