The Republic of Noricky is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.684 billion Norickyians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Norickyian economy, worth 157 trillion noricks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 93,548 noricks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions are being spent on a new island airport, the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification, news headlines usually include p-values, and black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Noricky's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noricky is ranked 98,671^st in the world and 2,692^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,373.48 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.