The Community of Nidifice is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by some short little fellow with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 26.743 billion Nidificeans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Klesat. The average income tax rate is 76.1%.

The enormous but inefficient Nidificean economy, worth a remarkable 1,029 trillion stuff found under the couch cushions 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. 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 38,498 stuff found under the couch cushions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

The skink is a protected species, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, euthanasia is legal, and jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nidifice's national animal is the skink, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is too good to be true.

Nidifice is ranked 69,476^th in the world and 4^th in Auxilium for Largest Governments, scoring 19.47 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.