The Allied Corporate Empire of Northern Borland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President and CEO with an even hand, and notable for its aversion to nipples, flagrant waste-dumping, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 34.885 billion Northern Borlandians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Commerce City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Borlandian economy, worth an astonishing 36,860 trillion Greenbacks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is a breathtaking 1,056,629 Greenbacks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,842,028 per year while the poor average 96,375, a ratio of 60.6 to 1.

The first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give, you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg, homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Northern Borland's national animal is the Buck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Northern Borland is ranked 206,945^th in the world and 325^th in Capitalist Paradise for Most Primitive, scoring -1276.1 on the Scary Big Number Scale.