The Emerging Utopia of Nigele is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Nigel Boiler with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.442 billion Nigeleans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Semprini. The average income tax rate is 52.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Nigelean economy, worth 140 trillion Mudcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,463 Mudcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Nigelean Embarrassments, corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans, and stuttering trypanophobes are doomed never to marry. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nigele's national animal is the Worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nigele is ranked 77,559^th in the world and 140^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,325.64 on the Gilded Widget Scale.