Location: USSR

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Communist Sturoza is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Bert with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls. Its compassionate population of 1.229 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 Education, Social Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sturozis. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, and schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Communist Sturoza's national animal is the Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Sturoza Token.

Communist Sturoza is ranked 146th in USSR and 98,994th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and