The Republic of Nortalia is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its smutty television, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, devout population of 249 million Nortalianoes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 42.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nortalian economy, worth 25.8 trillion Dólar Nortalenses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 103,677 Dólar Nortalenses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, the police insist that racism does not exist, foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Nortalia City Onça Pintadas against long odds, and the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nortalia's national animal is the Onça Pintada, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Nortalia is ranked 65,508^th in the world and 168^th in the Outback for Most Developed, scoring 72.31 on the Human Development Index.