The Republic of NC Mining 4 is a small, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The devout population of 40 million NC Mining 4ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Spirituality, with Education, Law & Order, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Environment and Industry aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 22.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The NC Mining 4ian economy, worth 1.86 trillion Litres a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 46,517 Litres, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The best way to get the government to U-turn is to squick out Leader, every day's an auto-de-fé day, policemen want to put the nation's homosexuals up against a wall, and liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NC Mining 4's national animal is the Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

NC Mining 4 is ranked 273,984^th in the world and 2^nd in Kremlin for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring zero on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.