The Free Land of The Nigarian Commune is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 930 million Nigarians 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 enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beartopia. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nigarian economy, worth 85.5 trillion dollars 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 91,884 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name, refugees from other nations are flocking to The Nigarian Commune's border, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, and the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects. Crime is totally unknown. The Nigarian Commune's national animal is the black bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Nigarian Commune is ranked 22,219^th in the world and 400^th in The Communist Bloc for Smartest Citizens, with 58.13 quips per hour.