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Most Primitive: 4,860thMost Income Equality: 6,734thMost Pacifist: 9,121st
The Conquerable Kingdom of
Corrupt Dictatorship Corrupt Liberal Dictatorship
In hills we trust.
Influence
Duckspeaker
Civil Rights
Very Good
Economy
Developing
Political Freedom
Few

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The Hill

Population9.572 billion

CapitalThe Throne on the balcony on the house
LeaderKing Chase

CurrencyHillo
AnimalSheep

The Conquerable Kingdom of The Hill is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by King Chase with an iron fist, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 9.572 billion Hillanders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Throne on the balcony on the house. The average income tax rate is 65.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Hillish economy, worth 204 trillion Hilloes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 21,342 Hilloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria, criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers, and babies are a small but significant export. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Hill's national animal is the Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Hill is ranked 309,387th in the world and 8th in Wind of Spirits in Exile for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 491.04 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.

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Most Primitive: 4,860thMost Income Equality: 6,734thMost Pacifist: 9,121stMost Politically Apathetic Citizens: 10,696thBest Weather: 15,984thTop
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