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 # Nurina
 
-** TODO: Add description **
+Nurina is a URI parser for Elixir. It was written for fun and as a learning exercise, so it's probably not terribly
+useful. It uses pattern matching instead of regex to parse the given URI, and attempts to follow RFC 3986.