The Principality of City of Saint Nicolas is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 404 million Saint Nicolasians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Nicolas. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Saint Nicolasian economy, worth 33.0 trillion Drahmas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 81,587 Drahmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums, City of Saint Nicolas's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, sex education has become an intricate maze of stick figures and complex metaphors, and vaccinations are mandatory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. City of Saint Nicolas's national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

City of Saint Nicolas is ranked 88,937^th in the world and 889^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,353.44 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.