The Northern Duchy of Nosy is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Brandon Hatch with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 23.477 billion Noses 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nosica. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Nosyan economy, worth 370 trillion Euros 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. 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 15,762 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Brandon Hatch has just been declared ruler of Nosy in an international press conference, Catholicism has been named as Nosy's national religion, jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', and laws are littered with references to cheese. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nosy's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Nosy is ranked 108,490^th in the world and 51^st in England for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.