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The Reunified Sovietphiles of Sirvat is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by MS Kamon with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 7.783 billion Sirvats are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ozzie. The average income tax rate is 86.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Sirvatish economy, worth 53.7 trillion Silvers a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 6,896 Silvers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The aphorism "there's no need to argue" has been dismissed by Sirvats, moles make up an incredible part of the upper crust, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sirvat's national animal is the Oppossum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Solipsism.

Sirvat is ranked 236,746^th in the world and 8^th in Beating Brian Up Gang for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 107.02 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.