The Committee for a Free Balder of Malicious NPU is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by ᘜuuÄ with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, prohibition of alcohol, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.204 billion Malicious NPUians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Free Balder. The average income tax rate is 62.2%.

The Malicious NPUian economy, worth 256 trillion tears of my enemieses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 49,235 tears of my enemieses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures, the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea, and bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Malicious NPU's national animal is the low-influence native, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Malice.

Malicious NPU is ranked 37,715^th in the world and 35^th in The Brotherhood of Malice for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 5,085.47 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.