The Protectorate of North Pacific Spy Agent 12 is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 19.246 billion North Pacific Spy Agent 12ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 56.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient North Pacific Spy Agent 12ian economy, worth 669 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 34,783 Shiny Green Things, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians live in abject luxury, membership in the state-owned Church of North Pacific Spy Agent 12 is mandatory and all other faith organisations are banned, the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting, and in a fit of passion Leader has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Pacific Spy Agent 12's national animal is the Black Bear, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

North Pacific Spy Agent 12 is ranked 195,310^th in the world and 7,826^th in Balder for Most Beautiful Environments, with 475.57 pounds of wildlife per square mile.