The People's Republic of Greater Northeast Ohio is a large, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 75 million Greater Northeast Ohioans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Greater Northeast Ohioan economy, worth 633 billion 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 Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 8,445 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and the nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Northeast Ohio's national animal is the Coyote, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Northeast Ohio is ranked 256,991^st in the world and 4,404^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.46 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.