The Republic of Nothern Fores is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Expie with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.054 billion Foresians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Education are also considered important, while International Aid is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neeluia. The average income tax rate is 80.8%.

The frighteningly efficient a Foresian economy, worth a remarkable 1,971 trillion Ƶ Zorlexas a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 325,707 Ƶ Zorlexas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Parents plead with their children to consider prostitution instead of philosophy, residents of ageing concrete tower blocks have vital renovation work stopped by Brutalism enthusiasts, ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences, and SOS from foreign ships mean "shoot on sight". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nothern Fores's national animal is the Snow Fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Nothern Fores is ranked 11,976^th in the world and 41^st in Christians for Most Cultured, scoring 106 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.