Location: USSR

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Socialist Marsupials of Wapakalypse is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by King Wapakoala with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.761 billion are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defence, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wapakoaque. 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.

The government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget', it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wapakalypse's national animal is the koala, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Wapakatheism, and its currency is the wapak.

Wapakalypse is ranked 186th in USSR and 89,711th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring -75 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and