The Republic of Nerau is a small, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. The quiet, industrious population of 29 million Nerauans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 26.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nerauan economy, worth 1.22 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,098 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nerau's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nerau is ranked 236,997^th in the world and 2,310^th in the Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.