The People's Republic of Northern Karinif is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.65 billion Northern Karinifians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of West Grestin. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Northern Karinifian economy, worth 330 trillion Rubleses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 90,609 Rubleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, a passport is literally priceless, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, and everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern Karinif's national animal is the Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Northern Karinif is ranked 141,540^th in the world and 7^th in The Qualactic Ozone of Quanigtarrious Jr for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 69.16 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.