The Union of Northern African Sahara is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Rahim Akhter with a fair hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 13.807 billion Northern African Saharans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, corrupt, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandria Federal City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern African Saharan economy, worth a remarkable 4,206 trillion NAS Dollars 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 304,655 NAS Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high, 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Northern African Sahara, and a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern African Sahara's national animal is the Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is State Secularism.

Northern African Sahara is ranked 13,883^rd in the world and 220^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 9,846.75 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.