Location: the South Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Peopledom of Soem is a gargantuan, economically powerful nation, ruled by Peyt Snarkleton with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 12.349 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 Education, Healthcare, and the Environment. The average income tax rate is 50%. 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.

Long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone, and extreme political groups are outlawed. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling. Soem's national animal is the Snark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Idea.

Soem is ranked 3,968th in the South Pacific and 121,543rd in the world for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -20 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and