The State of Nephthalim is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of public education, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 21.955 billion Nephthalimians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The very strong Nephthalimian economy, worth 920 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 41,919 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 285,000 per year while the poor average 2,252, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and Nephthalim has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nephthalim's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nephthalim is ranked 121,393^rd in the world and 3^rd in Apia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 39,949.08 Standard Monetary Units.