The Federal Republic of Nine Provinces is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Erling Haaland with an even hand, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, ubiquitous missile silos, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.109 billion Nine Provincesians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cantabria. The average income tax rate is 45.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Nine Provincesian economy, worth 115 trillion yuan a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 104,110 yuan, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Erling Haaland sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy, teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, and extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nine Provinces's national animal is the orca, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Taoism.

Nine Provinces is ranked 23,262^nd in the world and 357^th in Europe for Most Developed, scoring 85.76 on the Human Development Index.