The White Crowned Boreal Lights of North Cross is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Søren Sørensen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.729 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 1,680 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 293,338 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects, most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. 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 160,688^th in the world and 88^th in International Democratic Union for Most Pro-Market, scoring 15.11 on the Rand Index.