The Empire of Hilagang Bituin is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Northern Star with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 3.18 billion Hilagang Bituinians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fortress Rubricon. The average income tax rate is 81.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hilagang Bituinian economy, worth 547 trillion Starlings a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 172,296 Starlings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system. Crime is totally unknown. Hilagang Bituin's national animal is the Canis lupus arctos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Northern Stratcom.

Hilagang Bituin is ranked 326,114^th in the world and 4,041^st in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -14.24 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.