The Democratic People's Republic of Nyaryaga is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Workers Party with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.748 billion Nyaryagans 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zapolyarny. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Nyaryagan economy, worth a remarkable 1,033 trillion Polar Crowns a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 70,051 Polar Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills, it's not mass murder when the government does it, and police conduct raids on children having snail races. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nyaryaga's national animal is the walrus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nyaryaga is ranked 318,676^th in the world and 30^th in Arctic for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.12 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.