The Republic of Nerau is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. The quiet, industrious population of 56 million Nerauans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 26.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nerauan economy, worth 2.36 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,098 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nerau's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nerau is ranked 184,493^rd in the world and 1,777^th in the Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 61.64 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.