The Enlightened State of Nysa is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its aversion to nipples, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.725 billion Nysans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.0%.

The strong Nysan economy, worth 173 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 63,723 deniers, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, and pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nysa's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Nysa is ranked 130,042^nd in the world and 2^nd in The Archipelago for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 748.61 on the Gilded Widget Scale.