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The Republic of Greater Norfolk Island is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 210 million Norks are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.2%.

The powerhouse Norkish economy, worth 12.7 trillion Norfurks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 60,691 Norfurks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 175,199 per year while the poor average 16,682, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

The nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, pictures of government employees with expensive Pearbooks 'working' on exotic beaches dominate local tabloids, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, and drive-by spoilers are an increasingly common crime. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Norfolk Island's national animal is the Lord Howe Island skink, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Norfolk Island is ranked 94,503^rd in the world and 255^th in Talonia for Most Primitive, scoring 15.49 on the Scary Big Number Scale.