Location: Ireland

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Dictatorship of Myneurons is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its hatred of cheese. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 572 million 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, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Education, although the Environment and Social Welfare are on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 51%, 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.

Citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, euthanasia is legal, Myneurons is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and the people are furious with the government for allowing citizens to be executed for petty crimes in foreign countries. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Myneurons's national animal is the ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the chocolate-coated raisin.

Myneurons is ranked 20th in Ireland and 82,387th in the world for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and