The United Socialist States of Nanco is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 67 million Nancoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Nancoan economy, worth 1.43 trillion Bents a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry. Average income is 21,371 Bents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under, and young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nanco's national animal is the Boi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nanco is ranked 90,142^nd in the world and 2^nd in Sentry for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,064.79 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.