The Jingoistic States of Ennuard is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Secretary Meallán Haraldsson with an even hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 18.346 billion Ennuardians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ochai. The average income tax rate is 82.8%.

The all-consuming Ennuardian economy, worth a remarkable 1,590 trillion Malalils a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,688 Malalils, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, and reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ennuard's national animal is the puffin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetism.

Ennuard is ranked 72,594^th in the world and 61^st in Union of Christian Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.68 law-abiding acts per hour.