The City-State of Noyvern is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 18.402 billion Noyvernians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Noyvernian economy, worth a remarkable 1,128 trillion gold pieces a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 61,308 gold pieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Noyvern City Natural History Museum, and formerly internationally exported goods are now given away for free. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Noyvern's national animal is the wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noyvern is ranked 239,788^th in the world and 8^th in Old Guard for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.24 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.