The Confederacy of Nizea is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Boris with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, complete lack of prisons, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.009 billion Nizeans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Regalgrad. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nizean economy, worth 225 trillion rubles a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,019 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the Nizean Space Agency, unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year, and pedants defending Boris observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nizea's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Borisism.

Nizea is ranked 10,749^th in the world and 1^st in United Armies for Most Conservative, scoring 89.42 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.