Location: Nord

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The Olive Green of Eist is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by E Dogg with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6.212 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Equality, and Social Welfare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Under the Couch. The average income tax rate is 72%, and even higher for the wealthy. A robust private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Organ donation rates have hit a new low, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Eist's national animal is the goat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the liver.

Eist is ranked 19th in Nord and 74,739th in the world for Most Extreme, scoring 16 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and