The Nigerian Empire of New Ryansville is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Empress Charlotte with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 7.982 billion New Ryansvilleans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lagos. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Ryansvillean economy, worth a remarkable 2,854 trillion Nigerian dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 357,598 Nigerian dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

People are bored of easy crossword puzzles, the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion, patriotic citizens chant "there's only one New Ryansville" at foreigners, and a recent political speech drew the ire of nerds everywhere after the speaker claimed that Darth Vader was Harry Potter's father. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Ryansville's national animal is the West African Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Nigeria.

New Ryansville is ranked 237,850^th in the world and 128^th in Institute of Cellulose for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.