The Midnight Kingdom of Nightralia is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Surya Odin Parantaka with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.815 billion Nightrals are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Srivijaya-Fjallvári. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Nightralian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion astrals a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 169,970 astrals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, some achieve retirement and some have retirement thrust upon them, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, and giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nightralia's national animal is the Shadowphoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Wyrd-Dharma.

Nightralia is ranked 5,140^th in the world and 6^th in Carcassonne for Smartest Citizens, with 128.48 quips per hour.