The Republic of Narticol is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Julius Noyolo with an iron fist, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.577 billion Narticolians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Noyolo's Centralised Power. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Narticolian economy, worth a remarkable 1,062 trillion Pages 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 123,867 Pages, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government builds houses for foreign newcomers, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Julius Noyolo to meetings with foreign heads of state, record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported, and suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Narticol's national animal is the emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Narticol is ranked 6,729^th in the world and 138^th in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 109.45 law-abiding acts per hour.