The Republic of North Melbourne is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.951 billion North Melbourneans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The North Melbournean economy, worth 243 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 61,550 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. North Melbourne's national animal is the Kangaroos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

North Melbourne is ranked 162,779^th in the world and 34^th in AFL for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,617.06 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.