The Federal Commonwealth of Nitropol is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Sovereign Parliament with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 4.315 billion Nitropolians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Free City of Ultima. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nitropolian economy, worth 572 trillion Nitórs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 132,601 Nitórs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Nitropol's hospitals, traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', and physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques. Crime is totally unknown. Nitropol's national animal is the Raccoon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Nitropol is ranked 49,634^th in the world and 9^th in Heart for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,941.9 on the Gilded Widget Scale.