The Kingdom of Nourge is a small, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 40 million Nourgeans 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Nourgean economy, worth 1.39 trillion nourwegian kroner a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 34,785 nourwegian kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Men's magazines give handy tips on the most effective way to throw heavy stones, geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns, restaurants cater to pregnancy cravings, and there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nourge's national animal is the moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nourge is ranked 87,846^th in the world and 5^th in Gaia Aeterna for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,089.55 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.