The Allied States of USNE2018 is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Maximus Decimus Meridius with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.577 billion Nebraskans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aksarben. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming USNE2018ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,338 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,598 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, USNE2018 has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, and a government program is underway to revitalize USNE2018's beaches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. USNE2018's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

USNE2018 is ranked 286,137^th in the world and 5,324^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -15.83 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.