The Republic of Noricky is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its digital currency, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.778 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 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Norickyian economy, worth 158 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 89,076 noricks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears. 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 47,085^th in the world and 1,500^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 155.74 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.