Location: Islandia

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Tropical Utopia of Kathy Ireland is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kathy Ireland with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 3.667 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it 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 The Bonfire. The average income tax rate is 99%. 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 is ravaged by daily union strikes, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks, and the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Kathy Ireland's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Animism, and its currency is the dollar.

Kathy Ireland is ranked 82nd in Islandia and 101,115th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -13 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and