The United States of The North American Assembly is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ethan with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.614 billion Assemblyians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saphire. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient North American Assemblyian economy, worth 496 trillion Dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,591 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man, treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, and attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The North American Assembly's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The North American Assembly is ranked 8,459^th in the world and 190^th in the West Pacific for Best Weather, with 237 Meters Of Sunlight.