The Emirate of Noirestan is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, compulsory military service, and keen interest in outer space. The democratic population of 765 million Noirestanians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mirageabad. The average income tax rate is 48.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Noirestanian economy, worth 55.8 trillion elis a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 72,886 elis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, "Leader got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, and talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Noirestan's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noirestan is ranked 210,267^th in the world and 22^nd in The Union of Natiocratic States for Fattest Citizens, with 9.09 Obesity Rate.