The Sultanate of Nine Inch Nails is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.201 billion Nine Inch Nailsians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cleveland. The average income tax rate is 53.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Nine Inch Nailsian economy, worth 885 trillion nails a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 107,852 nails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, the value of the nail is directly tied to the strength of the previous hurricane season, photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls, and the "give and take" of international diplomacy often happens at gunpoint. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nine Inch Nails's national animal is the dog, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Nine Inch Nails is ranked 8,388^th in the world and 1^st in Ohio for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 6,869.8 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.