The Northern Commonwealth of Magna-Parva is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by David Elizabeth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.275 billion Magna-Parvans 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Sydney. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Magna-Parvan economy, worth 458 trillion pounds a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,850 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Guilt tripped foreigners heavily dictate child hunger in Magna-Parva, citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, it is typical to be greeted by a string of curse words in Magna-Parvan restaurants, and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Magna-Parva's national animal is the eel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is tolerant atheism.

Magna-Parva is ranked 6,714^th in the world and 57^th in Forest for Most Developed, scoring 92.99 on the Human Development Index.