Location: The Chewlands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Imperial Tsardom of Sparkvernia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Tsar Kasimir Sparkos I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.454 billion are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Czargorod. The average income tax rate is 99%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Information Technology industry, followed by Arms Manufacturing and Soda Sales.

The colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia, government officials across Sparkvernia are being "encouraged" to adopt white hawks to set an example for the populace, the government seizes all major gold finds, and vets have been drafted in to help "fix" those who fail the parental license exam. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sparkvernia's national animal is the white hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is Tsarism, and its currency is the ruble.

Sparkvernia is ranked 4th in The Chewlands and 8,874th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 10 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and