The Kingdom of Njordsund is a huge, genial nation, ruled by Leif Haraldsson with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and national health service. The compassionate population of 808 million Njordsundians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lindholm. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Njordsundian economy, worth 50.5 trillion gulls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 62,496 gulls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, planespotters are emigrating in droves, and 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Njordsund's national animal is the reindeer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Njordsund is ranked 45,991^st in the world and 573^rd in Europe for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,671.54 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.