The Time-and-Space Benders of Natuurkunde is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Nikola Maxwell E Steiner Tesla with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.28 billion Physicists love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Environment, and Industry also on the agenda, while Defense receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Site 20 Headquarters of Linear Collidor. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Physicist economy, worth a remarkable 2,534 trillion Mysterious and Very Potent Dark Energies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 131,442 Mysterious and Very Potent Dark Energies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Physicists believe manners maketh the leader, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Natuurkunde's national animal is the Unstable and Uncuddleable Large Wormhole, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Transcendental Ohm Resistance Movement.

Natuurkunde is ranked 282,946^th in the world and 10,639^th in Balder for Fattest Citizens, with 6.04 Obesity Rate.