Hakenium

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Hakenium
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Flag of Hakenium
Motto: L'union fait la force
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Region Belgium
Capital Assche
Official Language(s) Dutch
Leader Haken Rider
Population ca. 1,7 billion
Currency Hakenian franc 
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The Solo Democracy of Hakenium is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 1.261 billion are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and the Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, the number of children one can have is restricted by law, and trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Hakenium's national animal is the man-eating bleufrog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Hakenian franc.