Location: New England

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Seperate Vermont is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Alex Mapleoir with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.532 billion live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is mainly concerned with Education, although Healthcare and Commerce are secondary priorities. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2%. A large private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Retail and Uranium Mining.

Scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Barred Owl, Max Barry is this year's Miss Seperate Vermont, mobile phone masts are being erected all over the country, and organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Seperate Vermont's national animal is the Barred Owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the vermontian copper.

Seperate Vermont is ranked 7th in New England and 35,241st in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -11 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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