Location: The Moonlit Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Grand Oceanic Republic of Bircheshire Isle is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working population of 18.999 billion are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.

Students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas, government-run brothels can be found on every street corner, Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV program in Bircheshire Isle, and gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native Bircheshire Isleite casinos. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bircheshire Isle's national animal is the Birch Dwelling Falcon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Moonlit Dollar.

Bircheshire Isle is ranked 1st in The Moonlit Islands and 72,332nd in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and