The majority of North America's population is accounted for by the trio of the United States, Canada and Mexico, with almost 450 million of the continents 527 million people living in those three lands, and their large populations have helped to make it the fourth most populous continent, after Asia, Africa, and Europe.

The United States, Canada and Mexico contribute the majority of the continents GDP, with over US$16 trillion of the World's overall yearly total of US$60 trillion being turned over by them, and their 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has further consolidated their economic monopoly in the region. However a large chunk of the overall North American GDP comes from the United States alone, which is by far the largest economy in the World, with a Nominal GDP of US$14 trillion currently fuelling their society on a yearly basis.

This economic power also translates to politics, with the US not only holding sway over the area, but also over most of the World too. In truth, there remains a diverse mixture of extremely wealthy and drastically poor countries and colonised dependencies in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, and even in the richest nations, there are massive inequalities between different sections of society.