The Royal Duchy of Nolgonia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by 2nd Marquess of Hainaut with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.587 billion Nolgans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edenburgh-sur-Rom. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Nolgonian economy, worth 534 trillion Nolcoins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,636 Nolcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas", the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience, more citizens have access to Maxtopian Grass than clean drinking water, and dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nolgonia's national animal is the Common fallow deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mindfulness.

Nolgonia is ranked 94,832^nd in the world and 714^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,183.21 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.