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The Communist Republic of Soviet New Scotland is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Premier Smith with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 1.413 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Inverness. The average income tax rate is 82%, 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.

The airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, and the nation has an international reputation for compassion. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet New Scotland's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Roman Catholicism, and its currency is the Leninmark.

Soviet New Scotland is ranked 180th in The Internationale and 46,223rd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 20 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and