Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Wooden Diamond is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Rowan with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.894 billion enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Healthcare and Law & Order are on the agenda. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vermont. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wooden Diamond's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Pound.

Wooden Diamond is ranked 2,164th in 10000 Islands and 99,853rd in the world for Most Income Equality, scoring 71 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and