The Emerald Dream of Nyghtshaid is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Solanine with a fair hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, frequent executions, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.358 billion Nyghtshaidians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asphodel. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Nyghtshaidian economy, worth 56.3 trillion geos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 41,424 geos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Solanine is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, birth rates have hit an all-time low, and EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nyghtshaid's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Nyghtshaid is ranked 40,328^th in the world and 53^rd in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 742.32 on the Clooney Contribution Index.