The Galactic Hive of Nourvan is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Virgil with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.531 billion Nourvanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nourvan City. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Nourvanian economy, worth 412 trillion Nours a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,484 Nours, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nanobot owners exercise their pets at a snail's pace or risk a court appearance, matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold, turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius', and planespotters are emigrating in droves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nourvan's national animal is the Nanobot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Nourvan is ranked 88,556^th in the world and 8^th in The Galactic Union for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,006.66 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.