The Soviet Onions and the Baltics

The Soviet Onions and the Baltics is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Matthew Novikov with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, smutty television, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.878 billion Onions are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Onscow Megacity. The average income tax rate is 28.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient a Soviet economy, worth 212 trillion Onion Intergalactic Rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 114,568 Intergalactic Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government, judicial torture is outsourced overseas, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, and Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Soviet Onions and the Baltics's national animal is the Intergalactic Onion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yi Catholicism.