Location: Europe

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federal Republic of Octinstine is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by The Great killer Penguin in the sky with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 5.657 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Defence, although Law & Order and Education are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asklan City. The average income tax rate is 78%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling industries.

The nation's massive battleships are often mistaken for islands, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory minature radios, cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel, and religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Octinstine's national animal is the Panther , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Penguin worship, and its currency is the quango.

Octinstine is ranked 361st in Europe and 71,835th in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 102 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and