The Democratic Republic of North Tertiand is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Comrade Kirilenko with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.269 billion North Tertiandans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novograd. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient North Tertiandan economy, worth 416 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 127,534 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Maxtopian villagers starve by the time North Tertiandan officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them, they say that North Tertiandans made a dessert and called it peace, museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, and Comrade Kirilenko can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Tertiand's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

North Tertiand is ranked 9,650^th in the world and 28^th in The Social Liberal Union for Smartest Citizens, with 94.72 quips per hour.