Location: 10000 Islands

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Republic of Wooden Diamond is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Rowan with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete absence of social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 3.748 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vermont. The average income tax rate is 3%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, and the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms. 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 1,787th in 10000 Islands and 92,546th in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and