The United We Can't Survive of Nister is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Guy with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.182 billion Nisterians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Detland. The average income tax rate is 29.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nisterian economy, worth 487 trillion Lives 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, broadly diversified black market in Retail, Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 116,475 Lives, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, there's a bright dawn ahead for Nister, and gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nister's national animal is the Man, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Acrobatic Nister.

Nister is ranked 276,218^th in the world and 18^th in ND ND ND for Most Beautiful Environments, with 7.48 pounds of wildlife per square mile.