The United Peoples Realm of North Colbaltcon is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Thomas Everton with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, daily referendums, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.067 billion Citizens of North Colbaltcons 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plaffonia. The average income tax rate is 84.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong North Colbaltconian economy, worth 142 trillion People's Kronors a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 68,777 People's Kronors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests, visiting the best North Colbaltconian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, murder suspects plead the 'there was a rat beneath his chef's hat' defense, and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Colbaltcon's national animal is the Zebra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The People.

North Colbaltcon is ranked 76,380^th in the world and 4,109^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.72 law-abiding acts per hour.