The Regional Nation of The Northern Light is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The North Pacific Delegate with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.258 billion TNPers, 58 million of whom are zombies, have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magicality City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Lightian economy, worth a remarkable 2,524 trillion Pacific Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 190,360 Pacific Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 634,641 per year while the poor average 42,512, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

McMasterdonian Lions with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", televisions are often seized to pay for overdue television license fees, and 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Northern Light's national animal is the McMasterdonian Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Flemingovianism.

The Northern Light is ranked 198,769^th in the world and 11,038^th in The North Pacific for Most Avoided, scoring 0.76 on the Kardashian Reflex Score.