The Volcanic Islands of Nistriabar is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The High Chancellor with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.211 billion Nistrians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mako. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Nistriabarian economy, worth a remarkable 4,214 trillion Nistis a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 296,596 Nistis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cleaners are very careful not to bump into the big red button on The High Chancellor's desk, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, all the playground's a stage for Nistriabarian schoolchildren, and making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nistriabar's national animal is the White Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Nistriabar is ranked 1,734^th in the world and 70^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 283 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.