The United States of Nortgon Akalm is a very large, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 434 million Nortgon Akalmians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nortgon Akalmian economy, worth 43.8 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 100,950 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Press conferences always end with standing ovations and rapturous applause, doomscrolling is all the rage amongst the nation's teenagers, religious households enthusiastically use whips in private, and failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nortgon Akalm's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nortgon Akalm is ranked 39,386^th in the world and 620^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 64,537.95 Standard Monetary Units.