The Free Land of Nyvardan is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Taludão with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.742 billion Nyvardanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mao-shi. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nyvardanian economy, worth 562 trillion Nyvedas 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 150,296 Nyvedas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Taludão is considering changing the Nyvardanian flag to one with more glitter, Taludão panders to nontraditional families, the government has declared that too much democracy gets in the way of sensible leadership, and some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nyvardan's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ichimichimis.

Nyvardan is ranked 31,785^th in the world and 36^th in Lands End for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,474.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.