Location: Vissella

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist Republic of Ovisterra is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sheepman with an even hand, and notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.351 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Social Equality, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baa. The average income tax rate is 66%, and even higher for the wealthy. 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.

Much of Ovisterra's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, only the wealthy can afford monorail fares, the government pours millions of viaticuss into rehabilitation programs annually, and guns are banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Ovisterra's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is -choose your own faith-, and its currency is the viaticus.

Ovisterra is ranked 7th in Vissella and 86,352nd in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.12 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and