The United Kingdom of The Riverlands and the North is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by High Queen Ginny Bolton with an even hand, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 2.983 billion Northernfolk are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of White Harbour. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Northern economy, worth 154 trillion Mammotrects a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,867 Mammotrects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas, teachers regularly paddle unruly students, police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly, and courtrooms can be a little sketchy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Riverlands and the North's national animal is the Greyhound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bingosity.

The Riverlands and the North is ranked 138,525^th in the world and 3,446^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 10.98 flags saluted per person per day.