The Emirate of Nerksin is a huge, safe nation, notable for its teetotalling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 693 million Nerksinians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of hutaku. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Nerksinian economy, worth 56.3 trillion nerk-coins a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,297 nerk-coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thrift shops are closing their doors, derelict airplanes have been converted into novelty restaurants and hotels, social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content, and summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nerksin's national animal is the jelly fish, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Nerksin is ranked 202,802^nd in the world and 291^st in The League for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -3.16 on the Clooney Contribution Index.