The Kingdom of Outer Sparta is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Alexi Palas with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 20.386 billion Spartans 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 Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sparta City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Spartan economy, worth a remarkable 9,419 trillion Sparts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 462,057 Sparts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, clergy who start talking about politics are forced to take a holy vow of silence, noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Outer Sparta's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Atheism.

Outer Sparta is ranked 97^th in the world and 1^st in Europe for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 97.46 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.