The North of the Future of Owlton is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 567 million Owltonians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchorage. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.7%.

The strong Owltonian economy, worth 33.9 trillion Owl Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 59,862 Owl Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

Legislators must raise their hands if they want to speak, citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, and bailiffs must face down a fusillade of depleted uranium rounds. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Owlton's national animal is the Snow Owl.

Owlton is ranked 198,780^th in the world and 31^st in Republic of Nova Tero for Most Extreme, scoring 15.26 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.