Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist States of Ubermensch is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by Kennedy Marx with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 956 million 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ubermensch City. The average income tax rate is 72%, 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.

Organ donation rates have hit a new low, there have been reports of people marrying housepets, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, and refugees from other nations are flocking to Ubermensch's border. Crime is totally unknown. Ubermensch's national animal is the dove, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the credit.

Ubermensch is ranked 1,622nd in 10000 Islands and 88,495th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -21 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and