The Dictatorship of North Blackstream is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by general Helmut Rascher with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, aversion to nipples, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.36 billion Blackstreamers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Silverplate. The average income tax rate is 32.7%.

The frighteningly efficient North Blackstreamian economy, worth 298 trillion isodones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 126,498 isodones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The country is littered with broken homes, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, both criminals and civilians are DOA, and all guns must be registered. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Blackstream's national animal is the catfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

North Blackstream is ranked 208,880^th in the world and 3,371^st in the Pacific for Safest, scoring 34.79 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.