The White Crowned Lights of North Cross is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Søren Sørensen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, national health service, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.249 billion Northmen love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Åbenheim. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern economy, worth a remarkable 3,831 trillion kroner a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 373,883 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, the Northern Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, and where there's smoke there's the Northern Forestry Department. Crime is totally unknown. North Cross's national animal is the Troll, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Old Norse Pagan Christianity.

North Cross is ranked 264,266^th in the world and 139^th in International Democratic Union for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -41.59 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.