The Top-Tier Nation of North Aswan is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by The Goat with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.076 billion Aswanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of El Capital. The average income tax rate is 85.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aswanian economy, worth 708 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 139,632 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, and selling advanced CPUs to anti-Aswanian terrorists is no chip on the government's shoulders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Aswan's national animal is the snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

North Aswan is ranked 47,369^th in the world and 21^st in Eladria for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 5,559.61 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.