The Holy Blue Republic of Saint Nicholas is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Santa with an iron fist, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 14.722 billion Saint Nicholasians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Saint Nicholasian economy, worth a remarkable 1,663 trillion Gold Coins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 113,002 Gold Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 444,697 per year while the poor average 19,489, a ratio of 22.8 to 1.

School children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists, and puppies given out free in marketing promotions are often tossed straight into the trash. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Nicholas's national animal is the zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yodlism.

Saint Nicholas is ranked 29,935^th in the world and 14^th in Christmas for Highest Food Quality, scoring 67.96 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.