The Imperial State of Nordliches Stadt is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Wilhelm with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed population of 6.96 billion Nordliches Stadtians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nordliches Stadtian economy, worth 748 trillion Reichsmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 107,489 Reichsmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, and when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nordliches Stadt's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Nordliches Stadt is ranked 20,425^th in the world and 584^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,077.26 on the Gilded Widget Scale.