The Grand Duchy of Neurch Wis is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 2.039 billion Neurch Wisians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wistria. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Neurch Wisian economy, worth 313 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 153,930 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state, blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, and preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neurch Wis's national animal is the tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Neurch Wis is ranked 284,955^th in the world and 720^th in Europeia for Largest Black Market, with 54.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.