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The United Socialist States of Vessarlian

“Condemnant Quo Non Intellegunt”

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The United Socialist States of Vessarlian is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Roderick Lockwood with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.37 billion Vessarlans 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.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rocaster. The average income tax rate is 80.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Vessarlan economy, worth 208 trillion Septims a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,747 Septims, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals, international tensions are high as Vessarlian threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, and Vessarlian successfully hosted the The East Pacific Olympics. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vessarlian's national animal is the Okapi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheist.

Vessarlian is ranked 40,993^rd in the world and 884^th in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.28 law-abiding acts per hour.