The North of the Future of Owlton is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 604 million Owltonians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anchorage. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.3%.

The strong Owltonian economy, worth 34.9 trillion Owl Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 57,775 Owl Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, bailiffs must face down a fusillade of depleted uranium rounds, and graffiti artists make up a significant portion of the coal mining population. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Owlton's national animal is the Snow Owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Owlton is ranked 254,921^st in the world and 123^rd in Aspen for Nudest, with 65.25 cheeks per square mile.