The White Crowned Boreal Lights of North Cross is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Søren Sørensen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.754 billion Northmen 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 Åbenheim. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern economy, worth 880 trillion kroner a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 234,681 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lending money has become a major liability, many friends and relatives of Søren Sørensen have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles', and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is totally unknown. North Cross's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Old Norse Pagan Christianity.

North Cross is ranked 150,164^th in the world and 107^th in International Democratic Union for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -937.4 on the Hayek Index.