The Dominion of Niku is a colossal, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 4.527 billion Nikuans 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Public Transport. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.2%.

The Nikuan economy, worth 198 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,934 Delta Eagles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 148,126 per year while the poor average 9,648, a ratio of 15.4 to 1.

Immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, and newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Niku's national animal is the Kitsune, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Niku is ranked 217,288^th in the world and 3^rd in Nocturne for Highest Average Incomes, with 43,934.97 Standard Monetary Units.