The Imperial Empire of Nikolenya is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Nicholai Park I with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.403 billion Nikolenyans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mahbalinya. The average income tax rate is 52.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Nikolenyan economy, worth 80.4 trillion Pound Sterlings a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,319 Pound Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, more than one company makes the board game Monopoly, a passport is literally priceless, and funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nikolenya's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nikolenyan Orthodoxy.

Nikolenya is ranked 51,528^th in the world and 329^th in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 26.84 flags saluted per person per day.