The Republic of Nusantaro is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Calixto Arcilla with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 8.635 billion Nusantaroans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alicia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Nusantaroan economy, worth a remarkable 2,643 trillion Pesos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 306,150 Pesos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 951,152 per year while the poor average 75,818, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

A surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants, and stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nusantaro's national animal is the tuna, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Russian Orthodoxy.

Nusantaro is ranked 290,380^th in the world and 10,936^th in Osiris for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1.87 pounds of wildlife per square mile.