The Commonwealth of Northern Socialist Council Republics is a massive, safe nation, ruled by First Speaker Russ with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.047 billion Northerners 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soundstead. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Northern economy, worth 522 trillion Commonwealth kronor 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 171,578 Commonwealth kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People's charity begins and ends at home, Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to Northern Socialist Council Republics as a reminder of their "special relationship", government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, and pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits. Crime is totally unknown. Northern Socialist Council Republics's national animal is the swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Northern Socialist Council Republics is ranked 257,722^nd in the world and 13,359^th in The North Pacific for Highest Crime Rates, with 1.77 crimes per hour.