Location: Isle of Soheran

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Re-Revolutionary Republic of Soheran is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Supreme Anarch with a fair hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 15.09 billion 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soher. The average income tax rate is 99%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Soheran's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the lump of clay.

Soheran is ranked 2nd in Isle of Soheran and 89,323rd in the world for Happiest Citizens, scoring 10 on the Relative Cheerfulness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and