The United Socialist States of Northern Wadiya is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, vat-grown people, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 223 million Aladeens 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Aladeenian economy, worth 8.74 trillion Aladeens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 39,192 Aladeens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in Northern Wadiya, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', and school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern Wadiya's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Northern Wadiya is ranked 191,751^st in the world and 527^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -1.41 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.