The Democratic States of Northern frankia is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 696 million Northern frankians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Majrid. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Northern frankian economy, worth 60.4 trillion canadian dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 86,755 canadian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is seen as openly hostile to all religion, shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, and fat-shaming is now public policy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Northern frankia's national animal is the snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Northern frankia is ranked 66,455^th in the world and 1,142^nd in The East Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,890.87 on the Gilded Widget Scale.