Location: The North Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Respublika of Zemnaya Svoboda is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Minister Kerenskij with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete absence of social welfare. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 12.992 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be 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 Petrograd. The average income tax rate is 55%. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology industries.

Prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, the ZSBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, and the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem. Zemnaya Svoboda's national animal is the bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Orthodox Christianity, and its currency is the kopek.

Zemnaya Svoboda is ranked 4,309th in The North Pacific and 93,611th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -24 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and