Location: The Internationale

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Commune of Ucratia is a massive, economically powerful nation, ruled by Viktor Troska with an even hand, and remarkable for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.816 billion 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 Education, Social Equality, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CCCP City. The average income tax rate is 94%, 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.

Traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, airport security is provided by private companies, drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, and the mob and the police have recently had numerous clashes in the back alleys of Ucratia's cities due to the government's steadfast anti-casino stance. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Ucratia's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Durruti.

Ucratia is ranked 27th in The Internationale and 2,355th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 156 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and