The Principality of Northie is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Northerner with an even hand, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, anti-smoking policies, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 19.728 billion Northies are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Northiean economy, worth a remarkable 5,407 trillion Northerners a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 274,102 Northerners, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

All footpaths have tollbooths, they who do not work shall not eat, a government program is underway to revitalize Northie's beaches, and people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northie's national animal is the Northman, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Northern Runes.

Northie is ranked 323,992^nd in the world and 5,351^st in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -13.71 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.