The Republic of Neardan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Dinand Pacak with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.878 billion Neardanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lavovgrad. The average income tax rate is 77.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Neardanian economy, worth 199 trillion diamands a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 106,424 diamands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments, young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Neardanian Embarrassments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neardan's national animal is the rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Neardan is ranked 37,976^th in the world and 46^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,861.22 on the Gilded Widget Scale.