The Democratic States of Musica Nova is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Clio Apollo with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, national health service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.498 billion Musica Novans 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ars Romantica. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Musica Novan economy, worth 188 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,590 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, Clio Apollo's opponents have adopted dogs to chase away the mailman, the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses, and a passport is literally priceless. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Musica Nova's national animal is the otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Musica Nova is ranked 7,311^th in the world and 201^st in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 57.39 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.