Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Supreme Empire of Southern Sachalin is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Kaiser Achilles with an iron fist, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads. Its compassionate, cynical population of 1.209 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Defence, with areas such as Religion & Spirituality and Public Transport receiving almost no funds by comparison. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Walhalla. The average income tax rate is 79%, 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.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, anti-government web sites are springing up, terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums, and most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern Sachalin's national animal is the Sachalin Adler, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Sachalin Mark.

Southern Sachalin is ranked 3,803rd in The East Pacific and 87,347th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -20 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and