The Allied Corporate Empire of Northern Borland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President and CEO with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 36.996 billion Northern Borlandians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Commerce City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Borlandian economy, worth an astonishing 40,147 trillion Greenbacks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is a breathtaking 1,085,186 Greenbacks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,761,826 per year while the poor average 107,978, a ratio of 53.4 to 1.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, and the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Northern Borland's national animal is the Buck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Northern Borland is ranked 97^th in the world and 2^nd in Capitalist Paradise for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 168,218.26 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.