Location: The New Inquisition

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Most Awesome Sheepdom of Slovi is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Illya Deliro with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.334 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent 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 Rosenthal von Azrael. The average income tax rate is 90%, 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.

Door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', meat-eating is frowned upon, cheating spouses are required to undergo job training, and orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slovi's national animal is the Sheep, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Catholicism, and its currency is the Clee.

Slovi is ranked 716th in The New Inquisition and 98,572nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -34 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and