The United Kingdom of The Riverlands and the North is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by High Queen Ginny Bolton with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 3.005 billion Northernfolk are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of White Harbour. The average income tax rate is 59.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Northern economy, worth 155 trillion Mammotrects a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,864 Mammotrects, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas, teachers regularly paddle unruly students, police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly, and courtrooms can be a little sketchy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Riverlands and the North's national animal is the Greyhound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bingosity.

The Riverlands and the North is ranked 242,329^th in the world and 5,781^st in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -17.36 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.