The Frozen Wasteland of Northern Kortexia is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 17.4 billion Northern Kortexians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 81.5%.

The Northern Kortexian economy, worth 575 trillion Frozen Cortexes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 33,070 Frozen Cortexes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is compulsory, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern Kortexia's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Northern Kortexia is ranked 121,913^th in the world and 1^st in Kortexian Tech Barracks for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.52 law-abiding acts per hour.