Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Osiris Graveyard of Ravania Sepulchra is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Randall Ravenclaw IX with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate population of 842 million 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 Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sepulchratobia. The average income tax rate is 71%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, Randall Ravenclaw IX has just been declared ruler of Ravania Sepulchra in an international press conference, and eight year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas. Crime is totally unknown. Ravania Sepulchra's national animal is the Raven, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Claw.

Ravania Sepulchra is ranked 1,887th in Osiris and 74,693rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -16 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and