Sertave

Legal disclaimer: I'm pretty sure that's a Lacoste alligator in the flag so: Lacoste sue the owner of this nationstate instead of us.

The Commonwealth of Sertave is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.102 billion Sertaveans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Sertavean economy, worth 21.9 trillion Unis a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 19,873 Unis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's only official statement on the burning down of Sertave City was that 'they shouldn't have been so careless', voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and the Sertavean Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sertave's national animal is the Nile Crocodile, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.