The Republic of Navorden is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 803 million Navordenians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 26.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Navordenian economy, worth 75.1 trillion Lire a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 93,551 Lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks, newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names, the Father of the House has been in office just shy of a fortnight, and cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates. Crime is totally unknown. Navorden's national animal is the Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Navorden is ranked 40,879^th in the world and 1,605^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 3,315.06 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.