The Betrygge Rāvenriket of Nordustra is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Jennes Nolle with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.236 billion Nōrdustrāns are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nattfáravik. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Nordustran economy, worth 924 trillion krystils a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 176,631 krystils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weight loss clubs that guarantee losing a stone a month are talking about misplacing rocks, online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas, five-legged ferrets have more rights than the average citizen, and the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nordustra's national animal is the five-legged ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fáuna-Spiritism.

Nordustra is ranked 17,573^rd in the world and 80^th in Forest for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 301.36 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.