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Most Income Equality: 3,610thLargest Populations: 11,861stHighest Foreign Aid Spending: 21,227th
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Henry Bell

Population22.713 billion

CapitalDouglas Heights

Currencybetale
Animaldeer

The State of Henry Bell is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 22.713 billion Henry Bellians 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.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Douglas Heights. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Henry Bellian economy, worth 424 trillion betales 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 Pizza Delivery, Automobile Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 18,681 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, elections have been outlawed, punitive tariffs protect local industry, and Henry Bell has designated Douglas Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Henry Bell's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Henry Bell is ranked 46,191st in the world and 7th in Djibouti City for Most Stationary, with 943.33316709972 days.

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Highest Foreign Aid Spending: 21,227thMost World Assembly Endorsements: 23,430thHighest Average Tax Rates: 24,470th

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  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Income Equality.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most Survivors.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Populations.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Largest Black Market.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Populations.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Largest Populations.
  • : Henry Bell was ranked in the Top 10% of the world for Most World Assembly Endorsements.

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