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“Workers of Skeelzania, Unite!”

The People's Republic of Soviet Solomon is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, cynical population of 165 million are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 79%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing.

Gambling is outlawed, the government seizes the property of the recently deceased, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet Solomon's national animal is the vent weasel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the bunt.

Soviet Solomon is ranked 33rd in the region and 38,837th in the world for Largest Nations.