The Third Federal Republic of Noton Mast is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Henning Helgeland with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 2.868 billion Noton Mastians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Kingsley. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Noton Mastian economy, worth 418 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 145,983 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, it's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times. Crime is totally unknown. Noton Mast's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Noton Mast is ranked 36,624^th in the world and 449^th in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.31 law-abiding acts per hour.