Location: Ankh Mauta

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Plague Society of Nude East Ireland is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nobody in Particular with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants. Its compassionate, cynical population of 2.992 billion have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Welfare, and Social Equality. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Turnip Town. The average income tax rate is 73%, 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.

Artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, Nude East Ireland-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, and pollsters are out of a job as elections have been cancelled. Crime is relatively low. Nude East Ireland's national animal is the homeless orphan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the witty comeback.

Nude East Ireland is ranked 16th in Ankh Mauta and 14,024th in the world for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 53 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and