Population | 11.431 billion |
Capital | Clarion Gulch |
Leader | Homer Dove |
Faith | Songlines |
Currency | message |
Animal | Passenger Pigeon |
The Clarions of Herald is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Homer Dove with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, complete lack of prisons, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.431 billion Heralds love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Clarion Gulch. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.
The frighteningly efficient Heraldic economy, worth a remarkable 2,300 trillion messages a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 201,268 messages, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions, Clarion Gulch's back alleys are rife with sausage eating, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, and paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Herald's national animal is the Passenger Pigeon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Songlines.
Herald is ranked 36,667th in the world and 1st in Dreamtime for Most Stationary, with 1,240.1514285248 days.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Following new legislation in Herald, paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black.
- : Following new legislation in Herald, school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites.
- : Following new legislation in Herald, Clarion Gulch's back alleys are rife with sausage eating.
- : Following new legislation in Herald, NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions.
- : Following new legislation in Herald, faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers.
- : Herald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Inclusive.
- : Herald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Herald was ranked in the Top 1% of the world for Most Beautiful Environments.
- : Following new legislation in Herald, you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule Herald but at least the trains run on time.
- : Following new legislation in Herald, people can get away with murder these days.