The Democratic Republic of North-Britain is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Gordon McLennan with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.699 billion North Britons are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manchester. The average income tax rate is 81.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong North British economy, worth 199 trillion pounds 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 led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 73,960 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation, and family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North-Britain's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

North-Britain is ranked 61,779^th in the world and 100^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,162.14 on the Gilded Widget Scale.