The Imperial Empire of Nikolenya is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Nicholai Park I with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, avant-garde cinema, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.351 billion Nikolenyans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mahbalinya. The average income tax rate is 47.1%.

The strong Nikolenyan economy, worth 82.6 trillion Pound Sterlings a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,132 Pound Sterlings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, more than one company makes the board game Monopoly, a passport is literally priceless, and funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nikolenya's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nikolenyan Orthodoxy.

Nikolenya is ranked 32,975^th in the world and 518^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 803.8 pounds of wildlife per square mile.