The Volcanic Islands of Nistriabar is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The High Chancellor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.194 billion Nistrians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mako. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Nistriabarian economy, worth a remarkable 4,202 trillion Nistis a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 296,060 Nistis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political speeches always take place at sunset to a background of patriotic power ballads, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers, and pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nistriabar's national animal is the White Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Nistriabar is ranked 624^th in the world and 39^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 98.96 on the Human Development Index.