The Free Land of The Nobs is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 313 million Nobsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 64.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nobsian economy, worth 14.6 trillion Eurodollars 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 46,582 Eurodollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', women across the country are tying the knot, and graffiti graces every city's streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Nobs's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Nobs is ranked 131,267^th in the world and 60^th in Benigtopia for Most Developed, scoring 57.63 on the Human Development Index.