The King-Emperor's Viceroyalty of The Union of British North America is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Sir Peter Laurence with a fair hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, complete lack of prisons, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 10.768 billion North Americans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philadelphia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.9%.

The frighteningly efficient North American economy, worth a remarkable 3,552 trillion North American pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 329,939 North American pounds, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

The well-to-do in Regionless are never on time for important appointments, biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar, populations of two-headed swans have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, and movie references are legally admissible in court. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Union of British North America's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Provincial Anglican Holdouts.

The Union of British North America is ranked 792^nd in the world and 2^nd in Regionless for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,014.03 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.