Location: USSR

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Classless Society of Narmilia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Valentine Sergeyevich Plehanov with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 2.168 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and Social Equality are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Veliky Holm. 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.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Narmilia's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Labour Unit.

Narmilia is ranked 148th in USSR and 99,519th 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