The Norden of Virnall is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 19.492 billion Nordens 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 large, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Copenhagen. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Norden economy, worth a remarkable 1,876 trillion Nordic Kroner a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,257 Nordic Kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves, pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, and the populace lives in fear of painful execution for minor offences. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Virnall's national animal is the Artic something, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Virnall is ranked 47,772^nd in the world and 92^nd in Commonwealth of Liberty for Most Beautiful Environments, with 697.98 pounds of wildlife per square mile.