The United Provinces of Nothark Vilum is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Hergonn Voelhr with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate population of 9.922 billion Vilumians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Etterkadt. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Vilumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,730 trillion Okatts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 174,400 Okatts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, there's always a Bigtopian willing to eat Hergonn Voelhr's table scraps, doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick, and historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nothark Vilum's national animal is the Black Bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nothark Vilum is ranked 107,160^th in the world and 2^nd in Edris for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 58.33 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.