The Empire of Greater North Island Empire is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Master Lord Cyrus of Storms with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.573 billion Greater North Island Empireans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Póli Megálous. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Greater North Island Empirean economy, worth a remarkable 1,312 trillion Drucmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 235,438 Drucmas, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,418,993 per year while the poor average 17,570, a ratio of 80.8 to 1.

This year's hottest seller is plenary indulgence, police officers have nearly cracked a major underage astronomy syndicate, unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Póli Megálous make great practice for foreign snipers, and the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Greater North Island Empire's national animal is the Bengal Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Hellenism.

Greater North Island Empire is ranked 181,170^th in the world and 7,756^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 58.31 law-abiding acts per hour.