The Open Republic of Notefica is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Heikka Hakkinen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 3.522 billion Noteficans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vell. The average income tax rate is 32.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Notefican economy, worth 643 trillion Kroons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 182,590 Kroons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Feeling like a winner comes at a price, history lessons resemble a who's-who and how's-how of crime, chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, and foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets. Crime is totally unknown. Notefica's national animal is the Ant, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is not set.

Notefica is ranked 14,512^th in the world and 13^th in Anarchy for Highest Average Incomes, with 182,590.1 Standard Monetary Units.