The Republic of Nico Paz is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 396 million Nico Pazians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 53.8%.

The strong Nico Pazian economy, worth 27.2 trillion Gameses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,668 Gameses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

The media have begun calling the government treasury "Leader's stash", prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach, and singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nico Paz's national animal is the Player, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nico Paz is ranked 56,193^rd in the world and 26^th in Edoca for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 166.77 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.