Location: Futaba Aoi

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Liberal Socialists of Ventei is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Aprilius with a fair hand, and renowned for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 13.376 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 the Environment, Education, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tau Ceti. The average income tax rate is 100%. 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.

Political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, and parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads. Crime is totally unknown. Ventei's national animal is the zodiac, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is None, and its currency is the zenieth.

Ventei is ranked 3rd in Futaba Aoi and 9,943rd in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 32 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and