The Republic of Nordic Owl is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chieftain with an even hand, and renowned for its digital currency, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate population of 2.363 billion Nordic Owlians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vinland. The average income tax rate is 6.8%.

The Nordic Owlian economy, worth 81.5 trillion Kroner a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,487 Kroner, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

International tensions are high as Nordic Owl threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens, only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, and tea and biscuits have replaced waterboarding and sleep deprivation as the primary tools of interrogation. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Nordic Owl's national animal is the Ugla, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Heathen.

Nordic Owl is ranked 144,590^th in the world and 1^st in Lake Erie for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 838.37 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.