The Federal Commonwealth of Nitropol is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Federal Chancellor Marina Karlsson with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 9.266 billion Nitropolians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ultima City. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nitropolian economy, worth a remarkable 1,205 trillion Nitórs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 130,151 Nitórs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Newspaper stories fill several pages with colorful adjectives, the nation frequently puts profits over peace, where your food came from is an unknowable mystery, and bridge salesmen line up for blocks to make their cases at Federal Chancellor Marina Karlsson's office. Crime is totally unknown. Nitropol's national animal is the Raccoon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Nitropol is ranked 13,087^th in the world and 1^st in Heart for Most Developed, scoring 89.04 on the Human Development Index.