The United Socialist States of The North Islanders is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Admiral Zhukov with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.731 billion North Islanders are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Utopia. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient a North Islander economy, worth 894 trillion Kalingrads 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 189,156 Kalingrads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering', on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, and Admiral Zhukov's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The North Islanders's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The North Islanders is ranked 6,177^th in the world and 145^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,095.43 pounds of wildlife per square mile.