The Republic of North Densaner is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.276 billion North Densanerians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient North Densanerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,870 trillion Densaner Penances a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 201,596 Densaner Penances, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, a passport is literally priceless, the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore, and children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Densaner's national animal is the Lynx, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

North Densaner is ranked 70,220^th in the world and 40^th in The Card Mine for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.03 law-abiding acts per hour.