The Community of NicoMaki Shippers is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 16.952 billion NicoMaki Shippers 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NicoMaki City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient NicoMaki Shippers economy, worth a remarkable 3,910 trillion Love Gems a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 230,678 Love Gems, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, war vets look after war animals, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, and the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NicoMaki Shippers's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yuri.

NicoMaki Shippers is ranked 579^th in the world and 1^st in The Region of nicomaki shippers for Lowest Crime Rates, with 190 law-abiding acts per hour.