The Holy Blue Republic of Saint Nicholas is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Santa with an iron fist, and notable for its digital currency, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 19.826 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, moralistic, 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 70.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Saint Nicholasian economy, worth a remarkable 2,271 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 114,590 Gold Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 468,395 per year while the poor average 18,559, a ratio of 25.2 to 1.

Houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, ill and injured visitors in Saint Nicholas have to walk it off until they return home, banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses, and it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Saint Nicholas. 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 160,929^th in the world and 29^th in Christmas for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 318.08 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.