Nation States: Republic Of Surisea overview · 2:12am Feb 19th, 2015
The Republic of Surisea is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 401 million Suriseans 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, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The sizeable but underdeveloped Surisean economy, worth 11.5 trillion Marens a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 28,695 Marens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
The nation's gigantic air force is both respected and feared, every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, and private law firms are unheard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Surisea's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
I'm quite proud of my nation, but I would be prouder, if my economy wasn't underdeveloped and if my nation didint score a -14 in the Dawkins scale