The Shizanate of Nippon Isle is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Shiza Hikeji Koji with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.39 billion Japanese are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kyoto. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 57.4%.

The all-consuming Japanese economy, worth 669 trillion Yen a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,129 Yen, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 556,091 per year while the poor average 17,154, a ratio of 32.4 to 1.

Family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off, political activists are routinely executed, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, and wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nippon Isle's national animal is the Koi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Nippon Isle is ranked 26,186^th in the world and 9^th in UEPU for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 239.63 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.