The Armed Republic of Northern Tatria is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 479 million Northern Tatrians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qark. The average income tax rate is 12.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Tatrian economy, worth 49.4 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 103,211 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Dogman-branded weapons are all the rage in the militaristic comic-book community, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach, and whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Northern Tatria's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Northern Tatria is ranked 37,282^nd in the world and 1,304^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 187.91 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.