The Colony of Nagato is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 787 million Nagatoans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.2%.

The strong Nagatoan economy, worth 50.5 trillion yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 64,167 yen, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Nagato's national animal is the ox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nagato is ranked 222,579^th in the world and 86^th in Japan for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 264.1 on the Gilded Widget Scale.