Location: Europe

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The High Kingdom of Ivernia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Pádraig McHugh with a fair hand, and notable for its complete absence of social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 2.074 billion are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Commerce. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pádraigburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28%. A robust private sector is dominated by the Tourism industry.

Euthanasia is legal, urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, and wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ivernia's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is the High Church of Ivernia, and its currency is the Ór.

Ivernia is ranked 339th in Europe and 65,325th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 12 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and