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Most Advanced Public Transport: 316thMost Subsidized Industry: 1,079thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 1,304th
The Owen of
Iron Fist Consumerists
Virtus, Consilium, Imperium
Doran Leagallow
Influence
Shoeshiner
Civil Rights
Rare
Economy
Frightening
Political Freedom
Few

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Huks Gares

Population16.64 billion

CapitalYggdrassil
LeaderDoran Leagallow
FaithAthyism

CurrencyGold Bar
AnimalBat

The Owen of Huks Gares is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Doran Leagallow with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 16.64 billion Hukians 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."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Huks Garsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,912 trillion Gold Bars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports and Retail. Average income is an impressive 114,914 Gold Bars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 410,381 per year while the poor average 23,122, a ratio of 17.7 to 1.

A traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum, hell hath no fury like an ocean scorned, the government has embraced apartheid, and many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Huks Gares's national animal is the Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Athyism.

Huks Gares is ranked 15,151st in the world and 33rd in United Kingdom for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 85.53 Effective Tax Rate.

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Most Advanced Public Transport: 316thMost Subsidized Industry: 1,079thMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 1,304thMost Valuable International Artwork: 1,433rdLargest Gambling Industry: 2,157thTop
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Most Avoided: 3,504thLargest Black Market: 3,897thHighest Crime Rates: 3,897thNudest: 3,971stMost Advanced Defense Forces: 6,194thMost Advanced Public Education: 7,150thMost Secular: 7,900thMost Corrupt Governments: 10,800thHighest Average Tax Rates: 15,151stHighest Economic Output: 15,203rdHighest Wealthy Incomes: 16,056thTop
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Most Efficient Economies: 18,822ndLongest Average Lifespans: 20,399thMost Developed: 24,633rdLargest Populations: 25,771st
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Most Advanced Public Transport: 1st in the regionMost Subsidized Industry: 3rd in the regionMost Valuable International Artwork: 3rd in the regionTop
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Largest Black Market: 4th in the regionMost Extensive Public Healthcare: 5th in the regionLargest Gambling Industry: 6th in the regionNudest: 7th in the regionHighest Crime Rates: 8th in the regionMost Avoided: 11th in the regionMost Advanced Public Education: 16th in the regionMost Advanced Defense Forces: 16th in the regionTop
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Most Corrupt Governments: 20th in the regionMost Secular: 20th in the regionHighest Wealthy Incomes: 33rd in the regionHighest Average Tax Rates: 33rd in the regionLargest Populations: 34th in the region

National Happenings

Most Recent Government Activity:

  • : Huks Gares changed its national leader to "Doran Leagallow".
  • : Huks Gares applied to join the World Assembly.
  • : Following new legislation in Huks Gares, many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were.
  • : Following new legislation in Huks Gares, the government has embraced apartheid.
  • : Huks Gares was reclassified from "Moralistic Democracy" to "Iron Fist Consumerists".
  • : Following new legislation in Huks Gares, hell hath no fury like an ocean scorned.
  • : Following new legislation in Huks Gares, a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum.
  • : Following new legislation in Huks Gares, police officers spend more time on calisthenics than actually catching criminals.
  • : Following new legislation in Huks Gares, criminals are thrown to the Bats to repay their debt to society.
  • : Huks Gares was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Highest Average Tax Rates.

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