The Regional Nation of The Northern Light is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The North Pacific Delegate with an even hand, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 12.356 billion TNPers 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magicality City. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Northern Lightian economy, worth a remarkable 2,152 trillion Pacific Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 174,175 Pacific Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

All-natural foods are becoming a major fad, lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, and it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Northern Light's national animal is the McMasterdonian Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Flemingovianism.

The Northern Light is ranked 50,146^th in the world and 2,926^th in The North Pacific for Most Authoritarian, with 1,072.62 milliStalins.