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The Empire of Nickelsa is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, anti-smoking policies, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, cynical population of 381 million Nickelsans 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 44.4%.

The powerhouse Nickelsan economy, worth 34.1 trillion Niks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,458 Niks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Athletes are renowned for being the best at maths, undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Nickelsan weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nickelsa's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nickelsa is ranked 76,768^th in the world and 63^rd in Conch Kingdom for Most Extreme, scoring 26.47 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.