The Free Land of Nyvardan is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Taludão with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, national health service, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.791 billion Nyvardanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mao-shi. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nyvardanian economy, worth 565 trillion Nyvedas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 149,246 Nyvedas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep, gossip magazines have pictures of Taludão sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities, and in a baffling press conference Taludão proudly dismantled a broken door. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nyvardan's national animal is the dove, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ichimichimis.

Nyvardan is ranked 12,643^rd in the world and 27^th in Lands End for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 361.67 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.