The Free Land of Nerop is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, keen interest in outer space, and feral children. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.945 billion Neropians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Neropian economy, worth 162 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 83,510 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room", betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant, and tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nerop's national animal is the squid and dragonfly, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Nerop is ranked 269,168^th in the world and 264^th in The Khamen Union for Longest Average Lifespans, with 61.22 years.