The Kingdom of Nox Ira is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 676 million Nox Irans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Nox Iran economy, worth 9.50 trillion Scales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 14,053 Scales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear, children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, almost all of the nation's water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nox Ira's national animal is the Night Fury, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nox Ira is ranked 42,296^th in the world and 24^th in Lair of the Dragon for Safest, scoring 105.11 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.