The Borderlands of NoCal is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Lulo with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, cynical population of 8.162 billion NoCalians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aelam. The average income tax rate is 48.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NoCalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,045 trillion Eurodollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 128,113 Eurodollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, carpet bombing has decimated Brasilistan's landscape and population, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and the nation's air missiles have killed thousands of Brasilistan military personnel. Crime is totally unknown. NoCal's national animal is the NoCalian Lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

NoCal is ranked 20,590^th in the world and 1^st in Calivera for Most Cultured, scoring 87 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.