Soviet Alaska Union

The United Socialist States of Soviet Alaska Union is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.738 billion Soviet Alaska Unionians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Soviet Alaska Unionian economy, worth 57.3 trillion Verns 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 Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 32,952 Verns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, the Soviet Alaska Unionian Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, daily newspapers are permitted to run only pro-government stories, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet Alaska Union's national animal is the Orca Polar bear Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.