The Greater Nation of Nister is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Cade Thorn with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, fear of technology, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.735 billion Nisterians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Environment, although Industry, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Public Transport is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nocturna. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Nisterian economy, worth 375 trillion Lives a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Soda Sales, Retail, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 65,418 Lives, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, children are afraid to go out at night due to the ubiquity of hardened jaywalkers, Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament, and brain-freeze has taken on a new meaning. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nister's national animal is the Nisterian Hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Luminarism.

Nister is ranked 12,192^nd in the world and 1^st in United fraternal nations of gensokyo for Largest Black Market, with 392 trillion Standard Monetary Units.