The Holy Empire of Nabata Desert is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 8.679 billion Nabatans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arcadia. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Nabatan economy, worth 814 trillion Derahls a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 93,902 Derahls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum, abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state, and the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nabata Desert's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Draconic Faith.

Nabata Desert is ranked 12,078^th in the world and 728^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.69 law-abiding acts per hour.