The Republic of Noricky is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.759 billion Norickyians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Norickyian economy, worth 154 trillion noricks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,090 noricks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Money grows on trees, odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied wolf. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Noricky's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noricky is ranked 33,409^th in the world and 814^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 36.2 flags saluted per person per day.