The Kingdom of Norod is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Prime Minister Ottar Nerås with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.644 billion Norodians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Buvik. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Norodian economy, worth 373 trillion Crowns 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 140,904 Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, supervisors in Norod commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, and the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Norod's national animal is the Arctic Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Norod is ranked 6,189^th in the world and 1^st in Norgesveldet for Nicest Citizens, with 41.53 average smiles per day.