The Republic of Outer Sparta is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Alexi Palas with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 25.46 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 Administration. 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 an astonishing 13,002 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 a breathtaking 510,713 Sparts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, and large sections of Outer Sparta have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there. 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 26^th in the world and 1^st in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 1,327 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.