Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The People's Republic of Elmwood ireland is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by End All Kenny with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service. Its compassionate population of 6.713 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hartstown. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, most citizens in Elmwood ireland are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government, the Midget is a protected species, and the study of medicine is popular throughout Elmwood ireland. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Elmwood ireland's national animal is the Midget, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Euro.

Elmwood ireland is ranked 2,325th in Osiris and 86,664th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and