Tom Nook

Tom Nook is a raccoon that enslaves the people of the town with mortgages and a shop full of enticing items, which is run by his nephews, Timmy and Tommy.

His shop stocks furniture such as toilets and sofas, which can be sold for the equivalent of about 20 US dollars. Despite this cheap furniture, Tom Nook does not sell any food or drinks, so the villagers of the town have to shake trees to get fruit to eat (which inevitably ends up in a toilet falling on their head), and drink water from the river to not be dehydrated. Fortunately, these problems can be solved when the player purchases a café for the town, in which the villagers can get coffee made from imported beans from Brazil and Indonesia, as well as the local specialty, bird poo.

Despite Tom Nook's obsession with money and mortgages, the player is able to fend him off fairly easily by not going into his shop. In fact, most of the money handling is done at the post office, where 3 pelicans flirt with each other on a day-to-day basis where it gets awkward if you stay there for 5 minutes when they locked the doors.

It is rumored that Tom Nook runs a sweatshop underneath Main Street where he forces his raccoon baby slaves to build furniture for the Nookling Store. Timmy and Tommy, who are being forced to run the Nookling Store, earn so little that they can barely afford food. They can't afford shelter, so they sleep in the dumpster behind the store rather than inside it because Tom Nook doesn't want them to know that he has a sexual relationship with Lyle.