The Wine Dark Sea of Noogieburger is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 20.106 billion Noogieburgerians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Noogieburger City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.6%.

The powerhouse Noogieburgerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,274 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 63,400 $$s, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 266,202 per year while the poor average 9,813, a ratio of 27.1 to 1.

High school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, girls in elementary school classes gaze longingly at boys playing tag, the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence, and burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Noogieburger's national animal is the Laughing Swordfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Noogieburger is ranked 181,044^th in the world and 1^st in The Western Empire for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 51.48 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.