Location: India

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Tribes of Sonnveld is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 13.215 billion 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 government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shining Circle. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Gun ownership is compulsory, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and 'unconventional' weaponry has been banned. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sonnveld's national animal is the Black wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the sonn.

Sonnveld is ranked 61st in India and 101,213th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -65 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and