The Imamate of Nipperland is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by BryanTheFirst with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.8 billion Nipperlandis 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Al Pastoria. The average income tax rate is 58.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Nipperlandi economy, worth 269 trillion Nipperlandi Dinars 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 Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. 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 56,049 Nipperlandi Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Speech bubbles are the soul of wit, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, and the judicial branch is strongly influenced by the Communist Party. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nipperland's national animal is the None, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sunni Islam.

Nipperland is ranked 302,782^nd in the world and 3^rd in The Pacific Coast for Smartest Citizens, with 1.52 quips per hour.