The Democratic People's Republic of North Japan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its public floggings, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.215 billion North Japanese are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hokutou-Ko. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse North Japanese economy, worth a remarkable 3,054 trillion Yen 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 an impressive 116,532 Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia, and golden statues of Dragons line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Japan's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is State-Shintoism.

North Japan is ranked 35,212^th in the world and 2^nd in KYCF for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,440.19 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.