The Kingdom of Nyrin is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.102 billion Nyriads 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lukaria. The average income tax rate is 45.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nyriad economy, worth 50.3 trillion Shells a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,675 Shells, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, and advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nyrin's national animal is the Sea Hippocampus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nyrin is ranked 73,198^th in the world and 3,186^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 28.16 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.