The Armed Republic of Northern Tatria is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 409 million Northern Tatrians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qark. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Tatrian economy, worth 43.4 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 106,168 deniers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 473,513 per year while the poor average 14,789, a ratio of 32.0 to 1.

Dogman-branded weapons are all the rage in the militaristic comic-book community, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach, and whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Northern Tatria's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Northern Tatria is ranked 88,474^th in the world and 1,978^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,769.34 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.