The Kingdom of Niean is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 299 million Nieanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 21.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nieanian economy, worth 15.6 trillion Flars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,163 Flars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, new homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars, and prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Niean's national animal is the Cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Niean is ranked 130,554^th in the world and 1,051^st in Europe for Safest, scoring 72.62 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.