The Free Land of Noxerus is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Jon Bazes with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, strictly enforced bedtime, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 18.42 billion Noxerans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tarr District. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Noxerusan economy, worth a remarkable 2,672 trillion Noxes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 145,075 Noxes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,312,353 per year while the poor average 1,913, a ratio of 685 to 1.

Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park, it's best not to ask what goes into Tarr District Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices, farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season, and Jon Bazes's latest speech included a bizarre reference to MaxWow incontinence pads being 50% more absorbent than the next leading brand. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Noxerus's national animal is the Snake, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Noxerus is ranked 142,536^th in the world and 8^th in Devia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,703.02 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.