The Monmouth Bay Trading Company of Norfolk-in-Esva is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Miguel Tomás Balacua with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, fear of technology, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.675 billion Norfolkites are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Charlottechurch. The average income tax rate is 60.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Norfolkite economy, worth 175 trillion Norfolkite Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, Retail, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,735 Norfolkite Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare, and the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution. Crime is all-pervasive, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Norfolk-in-Esva's national animal is the Grizzly Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Theophilanthropy.

Norfolk-in-Esva is ranked 289,557^th in the world and 21^st in Esvanovia for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring -4.47 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.