Location: Osiris

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The United Kingdom of Paper Flowers Mission is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 502 million are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whoever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Social Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lithium. The average income tax rate is 50%, 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.

Businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes, and Paper Flowers Mission's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime is relatively low. Paper Flowers Mission's national animal is the Lotus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Origami.

Paper Flowers Mission is ranked 1,990th in Osiris and 76,501st in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -1 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and