Location: The East Pacific

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Borderlands of Emmieopolopolis is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by emmie with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion. Its compassionate population of 1.24 billion are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Social Equality and Healthcare are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emmieopolopolis City. The average income tax rate is 96%. 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 nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry, and libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars. Crime is totally unknown. Emmieopolopolis's national animal is the hippopotamus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the emmipoond.

Emmieopolopolis is ranked 4,250th in The East Pacific and 100,119th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and