Location: Tetrakon

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Constitutional Federal Rep of ViZion is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 18.812 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ViZion's national animal is the Babu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Gold.

ViZion is ranked 37th in Tetrakon and 94,922nd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -26 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and