The Nigerian Empire of New Ryansville is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Empress Charlotte with an even hand, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 8.065 billion New Ryansvilleans 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lagos. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.9%.

The frighteningly efficient New Ryansvillean economy, worth a remarkable 2,926 trillion Nigerian dollars 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 an amazing 362,890 Nigerian dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,785,098 per year while the poor average 42,126, a ratio of 42.4 to 1.

Years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, and traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Ryansville's national animal is the West African Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Nigeria.

New Ryansville is ranked 473^rd in the world and 5^th in Institute of Cellulose for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,209.78 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.