The Community of Nerdy Tangent is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and lack of airports. The compassionate, devout population of 584 million Nerdy Tangentians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Little Tree. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nerdy Tangentian economy, worth 20.8 trillion Avocados a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. Average income is 35,575 Avocados, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There have been reports of people marrying housepets, woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random, military barracks resemble five-star hotels, and carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nerdy Tangent's national animal is the tea dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Nerdy Tangent is ranked 193,476^th in the world and 145^th in Refugia for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 47.8 Whatever.