Location: Forest

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Rainforest Communities of Errinundera is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 15.407 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal individuals juggles the competing demands of the Environment, Education, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of First Creek Falls. Income tax is unheard of. 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 public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', and the tenet of free speech is held dear. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Errinundera's national animal is the long-footed potoroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the bola.

Errinundera is ranked 1st in Forest and 302nd in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 213 on the Kitten Softness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and