The Grand Duchy of Nukem is a large, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, devout population of 105 million Nukemians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Nukemian economy, worth 2.84 trillion Babeses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 27,072 Babeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls, internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Nukemian weed picker are way up, structures are raised on promises, and grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nukem's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nukem is ranked 211,991^st in the world and 6^th in Meme Time for Most Corrupt Governments, with 2.19 kickbacks per hour.