The Republic of Nicte is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 672 million Nicteans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tois. The average income tax rate is 73.5%.

The sizeable but sluggish Nictean economy, worth 15.5 trillion Kalas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 23,089 Kalas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, the military has quashed a recent coup attempt, and kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nicte's national animal is the Coastal Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nicte is ranked 28,915^th in the world and 21^st in Horizon for Most Extreme, scoring 39.77 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.