The Allied Corporate Empire of Northern Borland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President and CEO with an even hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, daily referendums, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 36.736 billion Northern Borlandians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Commerce City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Borlandian economy, worth an astonishing 39,743 trillion Greenbacks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is a breathtaking 1,081,856 Greenbacks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,780,849 per year while the poor average 106,212, a ratio of 54.4 to 1.

Unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away", older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, and after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Northern Borland's national animal is the Buck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Northern Borland is ranked 231,713^th in the world and 338^th in Capitalist Paradise for Most Inclusive, scoring 2.83 on the Mandela-Wollstonecraft Non-Discrimination Index.