The Open Republic of Notefica is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Heikka Hakkinen with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.559 billion Noteficans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vell. The average income tax rate is 27.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Notefican economy, worth 661 trillion Kroons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 185,938 Kroons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Record executives compete over space on buskers' setlists, sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, global warming is heating up, and it is cheaper to die in the wilderness than to survive. Crime is totally unknown. Notefica's national animal is the Ant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is not set.

Notefica is ranked 173,037^th in the world and 360^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 958.2 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.