Location: The Internationale

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Socialist Federation of Obrien is a huge, economically powerful nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 510 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 Education, Social Welfare, and Defence. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Proficere. The average income tax rate is 91%, and even higher for the wealthy. Private enterprise is illegal, but for those in the know there is a slick and highly efficient black market in Book Publishing.

The government is pursuing a new programme aimed at promoting cultural sophistication, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Proficere Times is sold out. Crime is totally unknown. Obrien's national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Marx.

Obrien is ranked 144th in The Internationale and 93,236th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and