The Newfoundland Town of Bay Roberts is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Geoff Seymour with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, daily referendums, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.447 billion Bay Robertsians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bay Roberts. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bay Robertsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,069 trillion Canadian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 126,634 Canadian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending, a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants, and Geoff Seymour is called 'Patches' at international summits. Crime is totally unknown. Bay Roberts's national animal is the codfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is lowercase-a anglicanism.

Bay Roberts is ranked 12,365^th in the world and 4^th in The Maritimes for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 387.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.