The Armed Republic of Northern Tatria is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, ubiquitous missile silos, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 354 million Northern Tatrians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qark. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Tatrian economy, worth 36.4 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 102,711 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 380,334 per year while the poor average 19,531, a ratio of 19.5 to 1.

Tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments, elite teams of assassins have been sent into Brasilistan, 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become Leader's new moniker, and five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Northern Tatria's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Northern Tatria is ranked 46,882^nd in the world and 1,526^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.