The Republic of Norilian is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 662 million Norili 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 medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ithanmou. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Norilianic economy, worth 72.5 trillion Norilian Kithas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,537 Norilian Kithas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness, Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, and many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Norilian's national animal is the Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Norilian is ranked 40,341^st in the world and 252^nd in Europe for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 5,929.47 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.