The Notes of Notesnook is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.167 billion Notesnookians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Notesnookian economy, worth a remarkable 1,271 trillion rupiahs 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. 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 177,405 rupiahs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 609,678 per year while the poor average 37,854, a ratio of 16.1 to 1.

Dinosaur cloners are fitted with Ankylosaurus monitors, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Notesnook flights to avoid the pay lavatories, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, and roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Notesnook's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Notesnook is ranked 301,294^th in the world and 739^th in Aetherius for Nudest, with 15.5 cheeks per square mile.