Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United 3 Socialist Republics of Zemle lyudyei is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Chen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 4.434 billion love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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

Criminals are thrown to the bulls to repay their debt to society, cremation is compulsory for the deceased, the police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime, and Zemle lyudyei is increasingly belligerent on the international stage. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zemle lyudyei's national animal is the bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is atheism, and its currency is the Zemle Lyudyei Taco .

Zemle lyudyei is ranked 2,003rd in 10000 Islands and 98,439th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -33 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and