The Democratic Republic of Northern Volnia is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 228 million Northern Volnians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 35.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Northern Volnian economy, worth 20.5 trillion Volnian Shroes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,828 Volnian Shroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Solid-gold toilets are Northern Volnian prisons' least expensive furnishings, the best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers, foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Northern Volnia will pay them to stop, and coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops. Crime is totally unknown. Northern Volnia's national animal is the Volnian Zubr, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Northern Volnia is ranked 49,811^th in the world and 106^th in Carcassonne for Most Beautiful Environments, with 687.5 pounds of wildlife per square mile.