If you haven't heard of Nationstates, I suggest you check it out. You can make your own nation, and shape it by deciding issues that the game presents you with. Here's mine:

The Disputed Territories of Speedkill
"You mess with the penguin, you die."

UN Category: Father Knows Best State
Civil Rights: Below Average Economy: Good Political Freedoms: Outlawed

Location: Ultimate Metal
The Disputed Territories of Speedkill is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 26 million are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defence, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 62%, 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 Uranium Mining.

Political activists are routinely executed, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Speedkill's national animal is the killer Devo Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the copy of MAYH.


The penguin reference is due to the fact that my flag is Sparky from This Modern World. Hopefully he doesn't mind.