The Empire of Niradans is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Victoria Adarin with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.888 billion Niradansians 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, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Immortalis. The average income tax rate is 64.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Niradansian economy, worth 210 trillion Joys 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. 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 72,827 Joys, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, political dissidents are cut off from essential services, and Lisfe now admits men and women into its clergy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Niradans's national animal is the Antilope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lisfe.

Niradans is ranked 41,143^rd in the world and 1,841^st in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 65.12 on the Human Development Index.