Location: Equestria

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Federation of United Soviet Countries is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 578 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Commerce, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canterloscow. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34%. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

Students cut up leftover PonyDollars during Arts and Crafts, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, psychological disorders are a taboo subject, and United Soviet Countries has designated Canterloscow as its capital city. Crime is moderate. United Soviet Countries's national animal is the Pegasi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the PonyDollar.

United Soviet Countries is ranked 72nd in Equestria and 78,396th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -17 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and