The Armed Republic of Northern Tatria is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working population of 322 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 9.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Tatrian economy, worth 32.6 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 101,321 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 375,189 per year while the poor average 19,267, a ratio of 19.5 to 1.

Churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings', government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, and Northern Tatria is notorious for its citizens' infidelity. 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 171,145^th in the world and 4,333^rd in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.35 law-abiding acts per hour.