The Commonwealth of Nathan Stark is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, democratic population of 4.399 billion Nathan Starkians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The strong Nathan Starkian economy, worth 171 trillion IQS a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 38,978 IQS, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 212,303 per year while the poor average 3,673, a ratio of 57.8 to 1.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers, the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, and ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Nathan Stark's national animal is the S․A․R․A․H, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Nathan Stark is ranked 80,432^nd in the world and 1^st in Eureka for Nicest Citizens, with 15.51 average smiles per day.