The Imperial State of Nordliches Stadt is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Wilhelm with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, sprawling nuclear power plants, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 11.971 billion Nordliches Stadtians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nordliches Stadtian economy, worth a remarkable 1,262 trillion Reichsmarks 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 105,475 Reichsmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, and hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nordliches Stadt's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Nordliches Stadt is ranked 232,113^th in the world and 3,590^th in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 8.25 Obesity Rate.