The Community of Norbundia is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Big Chief with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, ban on automobiles, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate population of 12.241 billion Norbunds are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Norbury Commune. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Norbundian economy, worth a remarkable 1,263 trillion shells a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 103,222 shells, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Norbunds incessantly needle their doctors for relief, fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, local officials love to claim the protection of their Big Brother, and SWAT teams raid bathrooms in search of bathtub gin. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Norbundia's national animal is the Tree-climbing Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Octopathy.

Norbundia is ranked 1,169^th in the world and 23^rd in The East Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring 237.23 on the Scary Big Number Scale.