The Commonwealth of Nichianiry is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Great Council of Wisemen with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 1.2 billion Epistemepolinens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gnosis Archduchy. The average income tax rate is 40.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Nichianiryian economy, worth 69.8 trillion Ergons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Average income is 58,188 Ergons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vote-counting is replacing kitchen patrol as the least glamorous army work, escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', the only science is political science, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nichianiry's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Nichianiry is ranked 91,910^th in the world and 171^st in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,692.97 on the Gilded Widget Scale.