The Colony of Nanen Islands is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 765 million Nanenese enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lena. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Nanenese economy, worth 39.6 trillion sand dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,752 sand dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Child support loans with high interest rates are available in Nanenese banks, you can't spell society without CIS, the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime, and even snitches get stitches. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nanen Islands's national animal is the wood stork, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Nanen Islands is ranked 13,024^th in the world and 13^th in Corsair for Most Cultured, scoring 103 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.