The Third Federal Republic of Noton Mast is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Henning Helgeland with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 2.868 billion Noton Mastians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Kingsley. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Noton Mastian economy, worth 414 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 144,683 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

According to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, factories grind to a halt every time there is an election, and Henning Helgeland seems to wear red a lot these days. Crime is totally unknown. Noton Mast's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noton Mast is ranked 37,319^th in the world and 456^th in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.87 law-abiding acts per hour.