The Block Universe of Nikos-Pikos is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 519 million Nikos-Pikos 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Welfare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ça-Passe. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Nikos-Pikos economy, worth 41.9 trillion periwinkles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,793 periwinkles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, all guns must be registered, and the government is hoping that medical aid will speak louder than human rights abuses. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nikos-Pikos's national animal is the brush rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nikos-Pikos is ranked 9,300^th in the world and 166^th in the West Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 66.2 on the Kitten Softness Rating.