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The Commonwealth of Virginia Isles

“Libertas Trans Maria”

Category: Left-wing Utopia
Civil Rights: World Benchmark	Economy: Basket Case	Political Freedoms: Superb

Location: Europeia

Regional Influence: Minnow

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The Commonwealth of Virginia Isles is a tiny, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, otherworldly petting zoo, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 18 million Virginia Islanders are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Virginian economy, worth 288 billion Wampum dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 16,053 Wampum dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, and chipped paint can see a building condemned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Virginia Isles's national animal is the Blue crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Virginia Isles is ranked 301,620^th in the world and 1,377^th in Europeia for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -12.07 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.