The Democratic People's Republic of Nyaryaga is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Workers Party with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.523 billion Nyaryagans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zapolyarny. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Nyaryagan economy, worth 678 trillion Polar Crowns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 71,225 Polar Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills, it's not mass murder when the government does it, and police conduct raids on children having snail races. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nyaryaga's national animal is the walrus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nyaryaga is ranked 36,952^nd in the world and 11^th in Arctic for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,952.55 on the Gilded Widget Scale.