The Ironic name of NationState is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Captain Squint with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.821 billion Nationistas love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sidmouth. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Nationist economy, worth 795 trillion sponduliks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 50,267 sponduliks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Nationist grocery store, cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise, voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NationState's national animal is the snuffleupagus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

NationState is ranked 51,269^th in the world and 5^th in Nationstate for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 67.84 Effective Tax Rate.