Location: Osiris

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The Vigilant of Zaolat is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Saulot with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 3.835 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with the Environment, although Education and Public Transport are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Enoch. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 35%. 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.

Bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers', government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, parents are held criminally responsible for their children's crimes, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zaolat's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Valeran, and its currency is the Dali's Patience.

Zaolat is ranked 1,726th in Osiris and 52,210th in the world for Healthiest Citizens, with 3 Standard Bananas Ingested per capita per day.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and