The Economy Wanting Republic of The Emerlid Grasslands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, lack of airports, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.28 billion Emerlidians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Emerlid Grasslandsian economy, worth 60.4 trillion Tiger coins a year, is highly specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,184 Tiger coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs, and monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for Emerlid Grasslandsian citizenship in droves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Emerlid Grasslands's national animal is the Tasmanian tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Emerlid Grasslands is ranked 93,268^th in the world and 791^st in Europe for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.