The Republic of Nortalia is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, devout population of 255 million Nortalianoes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 41.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nortalian economy, worth 26.6 trillion Dólar Nortalenses 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 significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 104,436 Dólar Nortalenses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The police insist that racism does not exist, foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Nortalia City Onça Pintadas against long odds, the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming, and noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nortalia's national animal is the Onça Pintada.

Nortalia is ranked 35,342^nd in the world and 96^th in the Outback for Highest Poor Incomes, with 68,700.65 Standard Monetary Units.