The Community of Northwestern California University is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 227 million Northwesterners enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Education, Defense, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The strong Northwesterner economy, worth 12.1 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Average income is 53,512 dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 346,899 per year while the poor average 3,301, a ratio of 105 to 1.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance. Crime is a problem. Northwestern California University's national animal is the nightingale, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Northwestern California University is ranked 251,773^rd in the world and 527^th in California Colleges and Universities for Most Patriotic, with 5.86 flags saluted per person per day.