The Republic of Nippon Shotou Teikoku is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 39.227 billion Nippon Shotous love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nippon Shotou Teikokuan economy, worth a remarkable 7,046 trillion yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 179,643 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, and the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nippon Shotou Teikoku's national animal is the green pheasant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Nippon Shotou Teikoku is ranked 8,503^rd in the world and 464^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 128 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.