The Republic of Nuars is a small, cultured nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 20 million Nuarsians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

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

The imploded Nuarsian economy, worth 144 billion Pessetas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 7,234 Pessetas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and the caged-bird trade is singing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nuars's national animal is the sea turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nuars is ranked 120,590^th in the world and 64^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Primitive, scoring -35 on the Scary Big Number Scale.