The Helizi Puppet of Nihal is a mammoth, pleasant nation, remarkable for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 5.036 billion Nihalians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, with Defense, Industry, and Healthcare also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 42.0%.

The large but inefficient Nihalian economy, worth 195 trillion forks 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Gambling, Tourism, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 38,849 forks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Nihalian Liberator", the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, and a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nihal's national animal is the Militarized Penguin.

Nihal is ranked 136,262^nd in the world and 1^st in Shots Puppets for Largest Populations, with 5.04 billion capita.