The Democratic States of Northern frankia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, anti-smoking policies, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, democratic population of 659 million Northern frankians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Majrid. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Northern frankian economy, worth 57.1 trillion canadian dollars 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 86,613 canadian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, Leader's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, and the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern frankia's national animal is the snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Northern frankia is ranked 247,050^th in the world and 4,216^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.91 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.