The People's Republic of Velyki Nyvy is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Premier Mykola Kukurudzenko with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.529 billion Velyki Nyvyians 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holovne Misto. The average income tax rate is 52.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Velyki Nyvyian economy, worth 77.5 trillion Kukuruzkas 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 Information Technology, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 50,656 Kukuruzkas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, the Ox has a hungry look, and it is impossible to get any work done as auditors swarm every inch of government factories and mines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Velyki Nyvy's national animal is the Ox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Work.

Velyki Nyvy is ranked 190,513^th in the world and 7,651^st in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 1.53 billion capita.