The Gold Holy Lucky Christmas of Nightralia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an even hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.746 billion Nightrals enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrasil. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Nightralian economy, worth 398 trillion astrals a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 145,043 astrals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a bright dawn ahead for Nightralia, sex changes are routinely performed at Nightralia's hospitals, students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, and lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nightralia's national animal is the Night Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Astro-Shaktism.

Nightralia is ranked 311,102^nd in the world and 781^st in Carcassonne for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -19.95 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.