In case you ever wondered:

According to a recent listserv posting from one of the principals of Norstrilia Press, the correct pronunciation of Cordwainer Smith's dry, dusty planet of sick sheep and fabulously wealthy farmers is "Nor-strile-ya".

Quoth Bruce Gillespie:

The contention was that, in using the term Norstrilia, Linebarger invented 'Strine' (the language that Australians actually speak) well before Professor Afferbeck Lauder (= 'alphabetical order') published 'Let Stalk Strine' in 1966.

The other contention is that Linebarger's satire of Australia in the early sixties in Norstrilia is dead-on. Gillian Polack at last year's Continuum convention in Melbourne pointed out that Linebarger's description of Norstrilia is an exact description of Canberra as it was at the time. It is not (as I assumed) merely a generalised description of northern, outback Australia, but shows how Canberra was a national capital set up among grazing and agricultural properties.