The United Socialist States of Nivgrad is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by General Secretary Andrei Kedrov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.165 billion Nivgradians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nivgrad City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Nivgradian economy, worth a remarkable 6,202 trillion Nivgradian Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 279,816 Nivgradian Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is proudly free of crabs, riot police are stationed around paintings of violent protestors, Nivgradian military drills look more like joint-Europeia exercises than anything else, and a certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nivgrad's national animal is the Arctic Caterpiller, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Nivgrad is ranked 8,806^th in the world and 24^th in Europeia for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 43,949.69 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.