The Commonwealth of The Great Plains of North America is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Kelly Foster with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.469 billion Americans 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wichita. The average income tax rate is 60.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Great Plains of North American economy, worth 103 trillion Great Plains Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 70,277 Great Plains Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and President Kelly Foster's speeches are beloved by insomniacs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Great Plains of North America's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Great Plains of North America is ranked 70,376^th in the world and 53^rd in Liberal Democratic Union for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 93.81 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.