The Post-volcanic Islands of Nistriabar is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Prime Alderman with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.494 billion Nistrians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mako. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nistriabarian economy, worth 426 trillion Nistis a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 170,992 Nistis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, and paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nistriabar's national animal is the White Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Nistriabar is ranked 14,815^th in the world and 728^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,012.84 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.