The Northern Commonwealth of Magna-Parva is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by David Elizabeth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, rampant corporate plagiarism, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.281 billion Magna-Parvans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Sydney. The average income tax rate is 84.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Magna-Parvan economy, worth 462 trillion pounds a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 140,853 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, many in Magna-Parva are born in the purple, and hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Magna-Parva's national animal is the eel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is tolerant atheism.

Magna-Parva is ranked 13,112^th in the world and 76^th in Forest for Highest Poor Incomes, with 110,953.96 Standard Monetary Units.