The Commonwealth of Northern Socialist Council Republics is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 659 million Northerners hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soundstead. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Northern economy, worth 65.4 trillion Commonwealth kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is 99,298 Commonwealth kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across Northern Socialist Council Republics, Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies, captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, and sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern Socialist Council Republics's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Northern Socialist Council Republics is ranked 90,470^th in the world and 3,636^th in The North Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 20.63 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.