The Oppressed Peoples of Noghorville is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 566 million Noghorvilleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Potato City. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Noghorvillean economy, worth 23.0 trillion Potatoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 40,708 Potatoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They say insanity is torturing the same citizens over and over again and expecting a different result, veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Noghorville's national animal is the Praying Mantis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noghorville is ranked 134,134^th in the world and 8^th in Spaghetti Land for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,422.15 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.