The Republic of NHK is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.372 billion NHKians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NHK-3. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NHKian economy, worth 187 trillion ducats 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 136,770 ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime, and Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume. Crime is totally unknown. NHK's national animal is the worm, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

NHK is ranked 314,316^th in the world and 8^th in Krautia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9.25 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.