The Dictatorship of Nagonstans is a large, genial nation, notable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 56 million Nagonstansi 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Nagonian economy, worth 1.54 trillion Stalks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Trout Farming industry. Average income is 27,466 Stalks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable, citizens are required to report any and all incidents of prayer to their local Religious Affairs Officer, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Nagonian weed picker are way up, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nagonstans's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nagonstans is ranked 208,736^th in the world and 4,869^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 35.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.