Super Soviet Spooky Spiders (SSSS)

The Spooky Scary Spidery States of Super Soviet Spooky Spiders is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Premier Kiriska Spookski with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 3.81 billion Spidersians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Industry, and Welfare are also considered important, while Environment and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ospooka. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Peoples Grand Spidersian economy, worth 606 trillion UCN 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 159,267 UCN Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing, the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, and Premier Kiriska Spookski's mistress is the belle at many state balls. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Super Soviet Spooky Spiders's national animal is the Sp00ky Snakeitis, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Spookyism.

This nation's name is often abbreviated for obvious reasons.