Location: Soviet Union

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Borderlands of Western Barhar is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its ban on automobiles. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 8.543 billion enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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.

People are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and welfare funding has recently gone through the roof. Crime is totally unknown. Western Barhar's national animal is the prancing tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the xi.

Western Barhar is ranked 19th in Soviet Union and 97,508th 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