The Ironic name of NationState is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Captain Squint with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.995 billion Nationistas 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 Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sidmouth. The average income tax rate is 68.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Nationist economy, worth 850 trillion sponduliks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 53,161 sponduliks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captain Squint is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls, finders keepers is the law of the land, Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, and stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NationState's national animal is the snuffleupagus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

NationState is ranked 15,494^th in the world and 1^st in Nationstate for Longest Average Lifespans, with 90.94 years.