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The Utopian Commonwealth of Discoveria

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The Utopian Commonwealth of Discoveria is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Nathan Bohr with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 36.323 billion Discoverians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Las Veritas. The average income tax rate is 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Discoverian economy, worth a remarkable 4,323 trillion discs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,039 discs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, and unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Discoveria's national animal is the lanternfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Discoveria is ranked 281,497^th in the world and 5^th in LGBT University for Most Primitive, scoring -360.49 on the Scary Big Number Scale.

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