The Democratic States of Nueva Britannia is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.806 billion Nueva Britannians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Nueva Britannian economy, worth 49.0 trillion Britannic dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 27,121 Britannic dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, graffiti graces every city's streets, wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nueva Britannia's national animal is the leviathan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nueva Britannia is ranked 49,159^th in the world and 2,699^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 72 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.