The Democratic States of Nueva Britannia is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.918 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 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Nueva Britannian economy, worth 53.8 trillion Britannic dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 28,043 Britannic dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms, children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and being dead no longer has any benefits. 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 55,645^th in the world and 2,806^th in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 51.48 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.