The Borderlands of Nightgon is a very large, safe nation, notable for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 158 million Nightgonians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.5%.

The powerhouse Nightgonian economy, worth 13.4 trillion doloreses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 84,622 doloreses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 260,487 per year while the poor average 21,237, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.

Minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination, and corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nightgon's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nightgon is ranked 109,509^th in the world and 3,075^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.