The Allied Corporate Empire of Northern Borland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President and CEO with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, aversion to nipples, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 31.825 billion Northern Borlandians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken 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 31,744 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 997,465 Greenbacks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,530,147 per year while the poor average 90,428, a ratio of 61.2 to 1.

The Gallery of Instasnap is the most popular museum in the country, the roar of the Niagara 3000 mega-loo can be heard several blocks away, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, and the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, probably because of the absence of a police force. Northern Borland's national animal is the Buck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Northern Borland is ranked 1,515^th in the world and 9^th in Capitalist Paradise for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.