The Empire of Niradans is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Victoria Adarin with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.881 billion Niradansians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Immortalis. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Niradansian economy, worth 253 trillion Joys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Retail, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 65,219 Joys, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies, the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, and running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Niradans's national animal is the Antilope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lisfe.

Niradans is ranked 189,695^th in the world and 9,075^th in The North Pacific for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -7.35 on the Hickory Productivity Index.