The United Socialist States of Nanco is a mid-sized, genial nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 62 million Nancoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Nancoan economy, worth 1.25 trillion Bents a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry. Average income is 20,189 Bents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Resident physicians are said to have a silver scalpel in their hands, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", and travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nanco's national animal is the Boi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nanco is ranked 325,001^st in the world and 8^th in Sentry for Largest Black Market, with 1.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.