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The Alternate Timeline World of Vulcan Colony of IDIC is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Selek with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 4.658 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although Social Welfare and Commerce are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Shi'Kahr. The average income tax rate is 73%. 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.

Chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, punitive tariffs protect local industry, and most citizens in Vulcan Colony of IDIC are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vulcan Colony of IDIC's national animal is the Sehlat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Surak's teachings, and its currency is the credit.

Vulcan Colony of IDIC is ranked 10th in Star Trek and 97,436th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -30 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and