Location: Wysteria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Capitalistic Queendom of Isle Of Hags is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Queen Gruntilda Winkybunion with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of public education. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 20.366 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, pro-business individuals devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Social Equality and the Environment receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Showdown Town. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing industries.

Government popup ads are springing up like weeds, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, graffiti graces every city's streets, and it's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles. Crime is crippling. Isle Of Hags's national animal is the Jinjo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Wicca, and its currency is the Jiggy.

Isle Of Hags is ranked 2nd in Wysteria and 4th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 38 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and